Tropescilloscope: Storming the Castle

The assault on the Big Bad's home base. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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