Tropescilloscope: One-Man Army

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

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