Tropescilloscope: One-Man Army

One warrior with the strength of many. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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