Tropescilloscope: Only a Flesh Wound

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