Tropescilloscope: One-Man Army

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

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They Really Do Love Each Other Blackmail Greater-Scope Villain Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Rule of Funny Our Zombies Are Different Fingore Sexy Discretion Shot Madness Mantra And I Must Scream Fan Disservice Break the Haughty Death by Adaptation Loads and Loads of Characters Slasher Smile Arranged Marriage Australian Movies Scenery Porn timeperiod Twist Ending Genre Shift Crazy-Prepared One-Word Title Genre Savvy Irony Artistic License – Military What Happened to the Mouse? 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Epilogue Unusually Uninteresting Sight Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Drowning My Sorrows Token Minority Spiteful Spit Police Brutality Cruel and Unusual Death Expository Hairstyle Change Foil Distracted by the Sexy Dumb Blonde Mood Whiplash Get Out! Unreliable Narrator Hoist by His Own Petard Deadpan Snarker Downer Ending Stalker with a Crush Evil vs. Evil Works Set in World War II Our Vampires Are Different Leave the Camera Running Composite Character Loophole Abuse Anti-Villain Leitmotif Curb-Stomp Battle Bond Villain Stupidity Room Full of Crazy Spiritual Successor Make It Look Like an Accident Exact Words Wounded Gazelle Gambit Karmic Death Hollywood Law Mundane Made Awesome As Long as It Sounds Foreign Covers Always Lie Cool Old Lady Self-Deprecation Dark Is Not Evil Ax-Crazy Five-Man Band Author Appeal Abhorrent Admirer Damsel in Distress The Great Depression Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Title Drop Funny Foreigner Missing Mom Improbable Aiming Skills Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds It's All About Me Adaptational Attractiveness Adapted Out The Remake Stealth Hi/Bye Boom, Headshot! Whole Plot Reference Never Found the Body Getting Crap Past the Radar And Starring Sir Swears-a-Lot Evil Plan Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Double Entendre My God, What Have I Done? No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Dull Surprise Product Placement Zombie Stories Plucky Comic Relief The Stoner Mercy Kill Deliberate Values Dissonance Corrupt Corporate Executive Shoot the Shaggy Dog Dual Wielding Fantastic Racism Rich Bitch Film Noir Dramatic Irony Domestic Abuse Manly Tears Word of God Pay Evil unto Evil Slap-Slap-Kiss My Greatest Failure Screw the Rules, I Have Money! 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Straight Gay She's Got Legs Instant Death Bullet Reality Is Unrealistic Super Strength Freudian Excuse Heel–Face Turn Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Sequel Hook Improbable Weapon User Your Head A-Splode He Knows Too Much Monumental Damage Humans Are Bastards Music Stories Empathic Environment Does This Remind You of Anything? Bring My Brown Pants Car Fu Curse Cut Short Suspiciously Specific Denial Dutch Angle No-Sell Narrator Properly Paranoid Psychopathic Manchild The '80s Logo Joke Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Names to Run Away from Really Fast Mexican Standoff The Un-Reveal Captain Obvious Stuff Blowing Up Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Epic Fail All for Nothing The Lancer Casting Gag Nice Guy Dark Reprise Call-Back A Minor Kidroduction Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Shipper on Deck Grievous Bottley Harm Nice Hat Improvised Weapon Rape as Drama Horror Films Be Careful What You Wish For Homage Amusing Injuries Deal with the Devil Historical Hero Upgrade Sanity Slippage Noodle Incident The Chick The Ditz Wicked Cultured Dirty Old Man Serial Killer Leaning on the Fourth Wall Laser-Guided Karma Dissonant Serenity Funny Background Event Expy A Father to His Men Bald of Evil Yandere Death by Sex Cool Car Establishing Character Moment The Sociopath Science Fiction Films The Bully Arc Words Scare Chord Not So Above It All Soundtrack Dissonance Not Using the "Z" Word Big-Bad Ensemble Film Series Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Heterosexual Life-Partners No OSHA Compliance Jerk Jock As You Know Body Horror B-Movie Wrong Genre Savvy Easily Forgiven Slasher Movie Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Only a Flesh Wound Ripped from the Headlines Artistic License – Law Outrun the Fireball Alas, Poor Villain Fun with Acronyms Everyone Has Standards The Ghost Off with His Head! Dark and Troubled Past Developing Doomed Characters Cain and Abel Toplessness from the Back Very Loosely Based on a True Story The Mafia Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Rule of Symbolism Anachronic Order Sequel Escalation Malevolent Masked Men Would Hit a Girl Ungrateful Bastard Silent Movie Adorkable Pragmatic Villainy Death by Irony Paper-Thin Disguise Punch-Clock Villain Humiliation Conga Disney Villain Death Kill 'em All Stock Footage Foreshadowing May–December Romance Male Frontal Nudity Insistent Terminology Fire-Forged Friends Vitriolic Best Buds Femme Fatale Silence Is Golden Cowboy Cop The Hero Dies Unwitting Instigator of Doom Shut Up, Hannibal! Eyepatch of Power Bolivian Army Ending Deus ex Machina Danny Peary Cult Movies List It's Personal Mugging the Monster A.I. Is a Crapshoot Gratuitous English Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Moment Killer Biopic Asshole Victim Suspiciously Similar Substitute Shower Scene Pretty in Mink Time Skip Psychological Thriller Chekhov's Skill From Bad to Worse Cluster F-Bomb Romantic False Lead Badass Longcoat All There in the Manual Brainless Beauty Immune to Bullets Guile Hero Costume Porn Early-Bird Cameo German Films Meaningful Name Match Cut Eiffel Tower Effect Action Prologue Visual Pun