Tropescilloscope: Shell-Shocked Veteran

A war veteran suffering from PTSD. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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