Tropescilloscope: Pre-Asskicking One-Liner

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

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