Tropescilloscope: One-Man Army

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

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