Tropescilloscope: One-Man Army

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

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