Tropescilloscope: Monumental Damage

When the bad guys blow up a big building, it is gonna be one we all recognise. (read more at tvtropes.org)

More Tropes Manchild Tap on the Head Didn't Think This Through The Casanova Roaring Rampage of Revenge Re-Cut Russian Films Facial Horror A.I. Is a Crapshoot Conspicuous CG Blood from the Mouth Badass in a Nice Suit Shoot the Shaggy Dog Silent Movie Fanservice Extra Contrived Coincidence Super Strength Dressing as the Enemy Funny Background Event The Lancer Arch-Enemy Irony Tempting Fate Chekhov's Gun Creepy Child The Alleged Car All for Nothing Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Anachronic Order Butt-Monkey As the Good Book Says... Grey and Gray Morality Unresolved Sexual Tension All There in the Manual NO INDOOR VOICE Gratuitous English You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Continuity Nod Even Evil Has Standards Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Put on a Bus Insane Troll Logic After the End Action Genre Big Applesauce Hero of Another Story Determinator Flipping the Bird Disney Villain Death Posthumous Character Slasher Smile Older Than They Look Scenery Porn Immune to Bullets Mythology Gag The Smurfette Principle Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Not So Above It All The Power of Love Mind Screw Action Girl Show Within a Show "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Say My Name Rated M for Manly No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Broken Aesop All Girls Want Bad Boys Punch-Clock Villain Diabolus ex Machina Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Intrepid Reporter Translation Convention Gainax Ending Abhorrent Admirer Badass Bookworm Parental Neglect Reckless Gun Usage One Steve Limit All Just a Dream The Big Guy Chase Scene Shown Their Work Calling the Old Man Out Country Matters Did Not Get the Girl Author Appeal Psycho for Hire Meaningful Echo Boom, Headshot! Ship Tease Darker and Edgier Logo Joke Captain Ersatz Improvised Weapon Dual Wielding Badass Normal I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Cold-Blooded Torture Actor Allusion Cassandra Truth Stuff Blowing Up Heel–Face Turn Black Best Friend Artistic License – Biology The Un-Reveal Meet Cute Killed Mid-Sentence Overly Long Gag What You Are in the Dark Cat Scare Bond One-Liner Does This Remind You of Anything? For the Evulz Sci-Fi Horror Poor Communication Kills The Cavalry Badass Grandpa Animated Credits Opening Batman Gambit Spared by the Adaptation Epic Movie Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Air-Vent Passageway Manic Pixie Dream Girl Fantastic Racism Outrun the Fireball Film Series Serious Business Aside Glance Naïve Newcomer War Is Hell Scary Black Man Moment Killer Pragmatic Adaptation Dramatic Gun Cock Unwitting Instigator of Doom Overprotective Dad Daddy's Girl Dumb Blonde Soundtrack Dissonance Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Kids Are Cruel I Did What I Had to Do Disappeared Dad Stealth Hi/Bye Your Cheating Heart Bottomless Magazines Narrator The Oner Canadian Movies Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Historical Hero Upgrade True Companions Laughing Mad Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Rule of Cool Double Entendre Bi the Way Those Two Guys Morality Pet Skewed Priorities The Brute BFG You Have Failed Me Fake Shemp Framing Device Disproportionate Retribution The '90s Groin Attack Adult Fear Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Music Stories Offscreen Moment of Awesome Artistic License – Physics Mugging the Monster Australian Movies No-Sell Famous Last Words Cloudcuckoolander She's Got Legs The Faceless The Dragon Peek-a-Boo Corpse Author Avatar Cool Car Imagine Spot Alliterative Name Disney Death MacGuffin Sir Swears-a-Lot B-Movie As You Know Broken Pedestal Cool Old Lady Break the Cutie Bullying a Dragon Half the Man He Used to Be Corpsing Riddle for the Ages The '60s Rich Bitch The Load Cruel and Unusual Death Wounded Gazelle Gambit Friend to All Children There Is No Kill Like Overkill The Film of the Book Spiritual Successor Interrupted Suicide Double-Meaning Title Red Eyes, Take Warning The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Rule of Three Villain Ball Vitriolic Best Buds Sadistic Choice Genre Shift It's Personal Despair Event Horizon Wrong Genre Savvy Loads and Loads of Characters Bloodless Carnage A God Am I Plot Hole Gilligan Cut Foil Maybe Ever After This Is Gonna Suck The Stoner Wham Shot Leitmotif I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Happily Married Aluminum Christmas Trees The Alcoholic Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Heel Realization Hollywood Darkness Villain Protagonist Good Is Not Nice Precision F-Strike Creative Closing Credits Bloody Hilarious Kill 'em All Horror Films Wretched Hive Guile Hero Dark Action Girl Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Pre-Mortem One-Liner Fainting Dirty Coward Authority Equals Asskicking Leaning on the Fourth Wall Shell-Shocked Veteran Actually Pretty Funny Adaptational Attractiveness Bare Your Midriff Line-of-Sight Name Word of God Parental Substitute Mood Whiplash Amusing Injuries Freeze-Frame Bonus Pretty Little Headshots Exact Words Adaptation Name Change Taking the Bullet Genre Savvy From Nobody to Nightmare Needs Wiki Magic Love Vacation Films Fat Bastard Not So Stoic Chiaroscuro Real Life Early Installment Weirdness The Reveal Eye Scream Wham Line Covers Always Lie Awesome, but Impractical May–December Romance Revenge Artistic License – Military Anachronism Stew Slasher Movie Zombie Stories Alas, Poor Villain Award-Bait Song An Arm and a Leg Department of Redundancy Department Accidental Murder Anyone Can Die Tagline Berserk Button "The Reason You Suck" Speech Shirtless Scene Arranged Marriage British Films Jerkass Random Events Plot The Place The Dog Bites Back Ironic Echo Brother–Sister Incest Dropped a Bridge on Him Manly Tears Paper-Thin Disguise Not Using the "Z" Word Bald of Evil Enemy Mine Dark and Troubled Past Earn Your Happy Ending Costume Porn Red Oni, Blue Oni Artistic License – Law The Atoner Heroic Sacrifice Handicapped Badass Bait-and-Switch Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Took a Level in Jerkass Guns Akimbo Spiteful Spit Death by Adaptation Market-Based Title Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy folderlabel Getting Crap Past the Radar Ungrateful Bastard The Musical The Voiceless Parental Incest Tranquil Fury Humiliation Conga Henpecked Husband No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Sacrificial Lion Adaptational Villainy Hate Sink Attempted Rape No Celebrities Were Harmed Dirty Cop Everyone Has Standards Informed Ability She Cleans Up Nicely Call-Forward Politically Incorrect Villain Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Green-Eyed Monster Humans Are Bastards Reality Ensues Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Early-Bird Cameo The Stinger Dies Wide Open Stalker with a Crush The Hero Dies Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil La Résistance Woman Scorned Adaptation Expansion Race Lift Face Death with Dignity Real Life Writes the Plot Black Comedy Rape Psychopathic Manchild Redshirt Army Documentary Evil Is Hammy Setting Update Ms. Fanservice Pay Evil unto Evil Italian Films Gender Flip Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Jerkass Has a Point Bad "Bad Acting" Noodle Incident Ambiguously Gay Fourth Date Marriage Bound and Gagged Ascended Extra Protagonist Title Stealth Pun I'm a Humanitarian Only a Flesh Wound Pretty in Mink He Knows Too Much Mercy Kill Almost Kiss In Name Only Biopic Not What It Looks Like Animal Motifs Destination Defenestration Have a Gay Old Time Face–Heel Turn The Mafia How We Got Here Improbable Weapon User Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Bury Your Gays Room Full of Crazy Accidental Misnaming The Hero In the Back Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Dark Reprise The Smart Guy Military and Warfare Films Genre Throwback No Name Given Drill Sergeant Nasty Pragmatic Villainy Playing Gertrude Those Two Bad Guys An Axe to Grind Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Cowboy Cop Public Domain Feature Films Villain Opening Scene A Minor Kidroduction Self-Deprecation Big Bad Cool Shades Soft Glass Once More, with Clarity! Fatal Family Photo Reality Has No Subtitles Rousing Speech Lock and Load Montage Ambiguous Disorder Blood Knight Crucified Hero Shot Worthy Opponent Gone Horribly Right Evil-Detecting Dog Eagleland Laser-Guided Karma Auto Erotica Would Hurt a Child Camp Gay Taking You with Me Jitter Cam What the Hell, Hero? Slashed Throat Not So Different Sanity Slippage Disguised in Drag O.O.C. Is Serious Business Exactly What It Says on the Tin Anguished Declaration of Love Made of Explodium Black Dude Dies First Dutch Angle Villainous Breakdown Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Twist Ending My Greatest Failure Small Name, Big Ego Neck Snap Defiant to the End Whole Plot Reference Combat Pragmatist Vampire Fiction Suddenly SHOUTING! Chekhov's Gunman Animal Title Index Science Fiction Films Bavarian Fire Drill Let's Get Dangerous! Christmas Movies Index Big Bad Duumvirate Big Damn Heroes Sole Survivor Final Girl Mooks Our Vampires Are Different Apocalypse How Sports Stories Agony of the Feet "Awesome McCool" Name No Antagonist Depraved Bisexual Fire-Forged Friends Offscreen Teleportation Hollywood Law Last-Name Basis Faking the Dead Red Shirt Stock Footage Jerk with a Heart of Gold Parental Abandonment Dying Moment of Awesome Throwing Your Sword Always Works Catch-Phrase Historical-Domain Character Only Sane Man Hair-Trigger Temper Missing Mom Unusually Uninteresting Sight Fatal Flaw Bilingual Bonus A Father to His Men Monumental Damage Epic Fail Bunny-Ears Lawyer Bittersweet Ending Card-Carrying Villain Defrosting Ice Queen Failed a Spot Check As Himself Armor-Piercing Question Meaningful Background Event Straight Gay The Bully Driven to Suicide For Want of a Nail Villain with Good Publicity Decoy Protagonist Names to Run Away from Really Fast Every Car Is a Pinto Vomit Discretion Shot Not Quite Dead The Remake Brutal Honesty Anti-Villain Brainless Beauty Shut Up, Hannibal! Your Head A-Splode Only One Name Establishing Character Moment The Ghost Meaningful Name An Aesop Deliberately Monochrome Kill It with Fire Really Gets Around Dogged Nice Guy Ghost Fiction Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Bar Brawl All Men Are Perverts Cool Old Guy Cain and Abel Beauty Is Never Tarnished Beware the Nice Ones Suspiciously Similar Substitute Eureka Moment Curse Cut Short Love at First Sight Gold Digger The Lost Lenore Lampshade Hanging Token Minority Deadpan Snarker Hell Is That Noise Rape as Drama Would Hit a Girl Punny Name World of Ham Danny Peary Cult Movies List You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Plucky Comic Relief Jump Scare Bolivian Army Ending Very Loosely Based on a True Story Mad Scientist Took a Level in Badass Rule of Funny Historical Villain Upgrade Adapted Out Catapult Nightmare The '80s Even Evil Has Loved Ones Mighty Whitey Dark Is Not Evil Heterosexual Life-Partners Deliberate Values Dissonance Age Lift One-Man Army The End... Or Is It? Loophole Abuse Works Set in World War II Distracted by the Sexy My Beloved Smother Superhero Dull Surprise Blackmail I Need a Freaking Drink Romantic False Lead Dramedy Totally Radical The Cameo Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Police Brutality Deal with the Devil Title Drop German Films Crazy-Prepared Japanese Films Retirony Ambiguous Ending As Long as It Sounds Foreign No OSHA Compliance Eiffel Tower Effect Men Are the Expendable Gender Well-Intentioned Extremist Adaptational Heroism Off-into-the-Distance Ending Love Triangle Idiot Ball Fun with Acronyms Refuge in Audacity Credits Gag Smoking Is Cool Chekhov's Skill Broken Bird Body Horror Demoted to Extra Hope Spot Developing Doomed Characters Fanservice Yandere More Dakka One-Word Title Obstructive Bureaucrat Mystery and Detective Films Evil vs. Evil Blatant Lies Smug Snake Hero Antagonist Homage Rewatch Bonus Index of Film Westerns Running Gag Bloodier and Gorier The Chessmaster Expository Hairstyle Change Intergenerational Friendship Belligerent Sexual Tension Fan Disservice Call-Back Bowdlerise Extreme Doormat Product Placement Adaptation Dye-Job Back from the Dead Film Noir Index The '50s Death Seeker In Medias Res Ominous Latin Chanting Reasonable Authority Figure Nothing Is Scarier Left the Background Music On Sealed Evil in a Can Big-Bad Ensemble Curb-Stomp Battle Film Noir Eyepatch of Power Freudian Excuse Police are Useless Action Survivor Bond Villain Stupidity Expy Amoral Attorney Evil Laugh Training Montage Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Honor Before Reason Together in Death timeperiod Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Pyrrhic Victory Star-Crossed Lovers Unusual Euphemism Motor Mouth Undying Loyalty Toplessness from the Back Get Out! Unspoken Plan Guarantee Match Cut The Stoic Break the Haughty The Chick Four-Temperament Ensemble Determinator aka: The Determinator Darkest Hour Retcon Black Comedy Red Right Hand Storming the Castle Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Black and Gray Morality Sexy Discretion Shot Television Movie Index Cluster F-Bomb Children Are Innocent Crapsack World Kick the Dog 20 Minutes into the Future Extremely Short Timespan Funny Foreigner Romantic Comedy Casting Gag Five-Man Band Never Found the Body Faux Affably Evil Karma Houdini All There in the Script Instant Death Bullet Improbable Aiming Skills Based on a True Story "Shaggy Dog" Story Affectionate Parody Mr. Exposition Fingore Redemption Equals Death Domestic Abuse Gory Discretion Shot Dwindling Party Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome What Happened to the Mouse? Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Cool Guns Hoist by His Own Petard Death by Sex Pimped-Out Dress Never Trust a Trailer Bring My Brown Pants Horror Comedy Comically Missing the Point Fiery Redhead Car Fu Here We Go Again! Madness Mantra Mexican Standoff Anti-Hero Off with His Head! Foreshadowing Big Eater Badass Longcoat Stepford Smiler Non-Indicative Name Obfuscating Stupidity Death of a Child He Who Fights Monsters Nice Hat Mama Bear Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Composite Character And I Must Scream Greater-Scope Villain Be Careful What You Wish For Shower Scene Shout-Out Adults Are Useless Creator Cameo Evil Brit Asshole Victim Ax-Crazy Naked People Are Funny Canon Foreigner Sinister Minister Sequel Hook Shipper on Deck Eldritch Abomination Heroic BSoD Demonic Possession Silence Is Golden Spanner in the Works Martial Arts Movie Damsel in Distress Dissonant Serenity N-Word Privileges Gorn Adaptational Badass Race Against the Clock Better to Die than Be Killed Central Theme Slap-Slap-Kiss Mistaken for Gay Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Hooker with a Heart of Gold Adorkable Beard of Evil Sequel Escalation Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Drowning My Sorrows Mundane Made Awesome Bland-Name Product Big Brother Instinct The Ditz It Can Think Psychological Thriller Sassy Black Woman And the Adventure Continues Fate Worse than Death Affably Evil Same Language Dub The Dreaded Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Deconstruction And Starring Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Villain Song Chewing the Scenery Alpha Bitch Wicked Cultured Knight Templar Heroes Want Redheads Take a Third Option Daylight Horror Death Glare It's All About Me Knife Nut Our Zombies Are Different Novelization Breaking the Fourth Wall The Quiet One Dramatic Irony Up to Eleven Time Skip Cat Fight Take That! Man on Fire Frame-Up Deus ex Machina Bad Boss The Bad Guy Wins Ass Shove "Well Done, Son!" Guy Large Ham Nice Guy Recycled IN SPACE! Artistic License – History Suspiciously Specific Denial Hong Kong Films Drives Like Crazy Celebrity Paradox Major Injury Underreaction Kubrick Stare Adaptation Distillation Drugs Are Bad Truth in Television Spell My Name with an "S" Does Not Like Shoes Action Prologue Ripped from the Headlines Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Hypocritical Humor Never My Fault Red Herring Becoming the Mask Light Is Not Good Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Closed Circle Insistent Terminology Important Haircut Beta Couple Neck Lift Evil Counterpart The X of Y Scenery Gorn Insult Backfire Papa Wolf Easily Forgiven '80s Hair The Starscream Downer Ending Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Thriller Jerk Jock Manipulative Bastard Those Wacky Nazis Due to the Dead No Ending Victoria's Secret Compartment Book-Ends Historical In-Joke Woman in White Too Dumb to Live Vomit Indiscretion Shot From Bad to Worse The '70s Advertised Extra Male Gaze Kick the Son of a Bitch Character Development Camera Abuse Betty and Veronica Mr. Fanservice Male Frontal Nudity Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Leave the Camera Running Femme Fatale Rule of Symbolism The Mole The Great Depression Visual Pun Pet the Dog Coming-of-Age Story Obviously Evil I Have Your Wife Rasputinian Death It Will Never Catch On Brick Joke Not Even Bothering with the Accent Big "NO!" Unreliable Narrator Video Credits Stylistic Suck Flashback A Date with Rosie Palms Dirty Old Man Implacable Man Evil Is Petty Hidden Depths Only in It for the Money Big Fancy House Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! The Vamp Evil Plan Fantasy Films Death by Irony Married to the Job Annoying Younger Sibling Hypocrite Made of Iron Grievous Bottley Harm Scare Chord Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Antagonist Title Malevolent Masked Men Oh, Crap! My God, What Have I Done? Captain Obvious Serial Killer Evil Sounds Deep Artistic License – Geography Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Fish out of Water Corrupt Corporate Executive The Sociopath Karmic Death Arc Words Artistic License – Gun Safety Foregone Conclusion Properly Paranoid Babies Ever After Abusive Parents Lighter and Softer French Films Reality Is Unrealistic You Killed My Father Retired Badass Crazy Jealous Guy Make It Look Like an Accident Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Empathic Environment Trailers Always Spoil Badass Boast The Ace Only Known by Their Nickname