Tropescilloscope: Pre-Asskicking One-Liner

To do a One-Liner right before you beat someone up. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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