Tropescilloscope: One-Man Army

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

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