Tropescilloscope: One-Man Army

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

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