Tropescilloscope: Storming the Castle

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

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Punny Name It's All About Me Fan Disservice Central Theme All Just a Dream Aside Glance No Celebrities Were Harmed Contrived Coincidence Red Oni, Blue Oni Final Girl Sports Stories Eagleland Deus ex Machina Fake Shemp Redemption Equals Death Gold Digger Defiant to the End Humans Are Bastards Face Death with Dignity Fire-Forged Friends Department of Redundancy Department The Un-Reveal World of Ham As You Know Madness Mantra Batman Gambit French Films I'm a Humanitarian Dark Action Girl Novelization Death of a Child Bavarian Fire Drill Kick the Son of a Bitch The Alleged Car Alpha Bitch The Reveal Bond Villain Stupidity Evil Laugh Big-Bad Ensemble Not Quite Dead Dual Wielding Meaningful Name Interrupted Suicide Not So Different Scary Black Man Adapted Out War Is Hell The Hero Put on a Bus Implacable Man He Knows Too Much My Beloved Smother Knight Templar Psycho for Hire Black Dude Dies First Vomit Discretion Shot The Load Demonic Possession BFG Take a Third Option Beard of Evil Canon Foreigner Card-Carrying Villain Word of God Artistic License – Law Bait-and-Switch Badass Grandpa Artistic License – Geography Nothing Is Scarier Karmic Death Boom, Headshot! 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Hell Is That Noise Amusing Injuries Daylight Horror From Nobody to Nightmare True Companions Costume Porn Rated M for Manly Adaptation Distillation Product Placement Humiliation Conga Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Actually Pretty Funny Together in Death Creepy Child Wounded Gazelle Gambit Does Not Like Shoes Major Injury Underreaction Heroic Sacrifice Drill Sergeant Nasty Chekhov's Skill Based on a True Story Nice Hat Shown Their Work And the Adventure Continues Trailers Always Spoil Cain and Abel Fingore Bring My Brown Pants The '90s Parental Incest Rule of Cool Closed Circle Meaningful Echo The Ghost Playing Gertrude Truth in Television Drives Like Crazy The Starscream The Oner Evil vs. Evil Not Even Bothering with the Accent Laser-Guided Karma Adaptation Dye-Job Obfuscating Stupidity Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Lighter and Softer Air-Vent Passageway Neck Snap Author Appeal Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! You Killed My Father Villain with Good Publicity Drowning My Sorrows Determinator aka: The Determinator Throwing Your Sword Always Works Police are Useless Fiery Redhead Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Wham Shot Nice Guy Hidden Depths Historical Hero Upgrade Only One Name Breaking the Fourth Wall Spiritual Successor Silence Is Golden Rousing Speech Bittersweet Ending Australian Movies Fantasy Films Bad Boss Awesome, but Impractical Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Blackmail Improbable Weapon User Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Corrupt Corporate Executive Does This Remind You of Anything? Bilingual Bonus Every Car Is a Pinto Fat Bastard Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Rasputinian Death Disproportionate Retribution Bond One-Liner The Sociopath Antagonist Title Evil Plan Broken Bird Hollywood Darkness Psychological Thriller Ragtag Bunch of Misfits What Happened to the Mouse? Fatal Family Photo Christmas Movies Index Intrepid Reporter Red Right Hand Corpsing Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Mugging the Monster Babies Ever After Almost Kiss Pyrrhic Victory Gone Horribly Right Wham Line As Himself Music Stories Due to the Dead Logo Joke Dramatic Gun Cock Red Shirt Index of Film Westerns "Shaggy Dog" Story Only Sane Man Crucified Hero Shot Big Brother Instinct Animated Credits Opening Establishing Character Moment The Chick Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Historical-Domain Character A.I. Is a Crapshoot The '50s Distracted by the Sexy No Ending Serious Business Bound and Gagged Time Skip Scare Chord Did Not Get the Girl I Have Your Wife Parental Substitute One-Man Army Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Works Set in World War II Creative Closing Credits Informed Ability Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Spared by the Adaptation Wretched Hive The Dragon Chase Scene Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Storming the Castle Big Bad Duumvirate Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Abusive Parents Gory Discretion Shot Bad "Bad Acting" Laughing Mad The Smart Guy British Films Only in It for the Money Death Glare Get Out! Cool Old Lady Real Life Frame-Up Hero of Another Story Action Prologue Adult Fear Dramatic Irony Armor-Piercing Question Comically Missing the Point Married to the Job Dissonant Serenity Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Soundtrack Dissonance Wrong Genre Savvy Dogged Nice Guy Reality Has No Subtitles Eyepatch of Power Too Dumb to Live Victoria's Secret Compartment Anti-Hero Faking the Dead The Dog Bites Back Plot Hole Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Intergenerational Friendship Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Evil Brit Ambiguously Gay Undying Loyalty Shower Scene No-Sell Mood Whiplash Call-Back Immune to Bullets Catapult Nightmare Recycled IN SPACE! Stealth Pun O.O.C. Is Serious Business Fate Worse than Death Artistic License – Biology Made of Explodium Double Entendre Evil Sounds Deep Adaptational Attractiveness Bolivian Army Ending Adorkable Only Known by Their Nickname Horror Films Shell-Shocked Veteran The Mafia Unusual Euphemism Darker and Edgier Rule of Symbolism The Faceless Manly Tears Eldritch Abomination Failed a Spot Check Sci-Fi Horror Damsel in Distress Unreliable Narrator Better to Die than Be Killed Foreshadowing The Great Depression The Chessmaster La Résistance Kubrick Stare Dirty Old Man Insult Backfire Imagine Spot Obviously Evil Heterosexual Life-Partners Mystery and Detective Films Deal with the Devil Title Drop The Vamp Anachronism Stew Animal Title Index The Casanova Affectionate Parody Up to Eleven Plucky Comic Relief After the End Room Full of Crazy Manipulative Bastard Double-Meaning Title N-Word Privileges Back from the Dead Reality Ensues Retirony Dark Is Not Evil Cassandra Truth Adaptational Villainy Bloodless Carnage A Father to His Men Sir Swears-a-Lot Deliberately Monochrome Not So Stoic Easily Forgiven Bunny-Ears Lawyer Sanity Slippage Scenery Porn Animal Motifs Pragmatic Adaptation Unspoken Plan Guarantee The Bad Guy Wins Mythology Gag What the Hell, Hero? The Brute Amoral Attorney Cloudcuckoolander Anguished Declaration of Love Bottomless Magazines Very Loosely Based on a True Story Chekhov's Gunman The Bully Four-Temperament Ensemble Mooks Fatal Flaw And Starring Random Events Plot Noodle Incident Big Applesauce Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Not So Above It All Instant Death Bullet Only a Flesh Wound Have a Gay Old Time Whole Plot Reference All There in the Script Downer Ending Famous Last Words Male Frontal Nudity Deliberate Values Dissonance Smug Snake Blood from the Mouth Posthumous Character Bullying a Dragon An Axe to Grind Fish out of Water Tempting Fate The Voiceless Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Adaptational Heroism Catch-Phrase Hong Kong Films In Name Only Military and Warfare Films Disney Villain Death Driven to Suicide Off-into-the-Distance Ending Toplessness from the Back Half the Man He Used to Be Make It Look Like an Accident Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Slap-Slap-Kiss Peek-a-Boo Corpse Off with His Head! The Stinger Outrun the Fireball It's Personal Big Bad Extremely Short Timespan Everyone Has Standards Police Brutality Rich Bitch I Need a Freaking Drink Mexican Standoff Darkest Hour The Stoner Would Hurt a Child Vitriolic Best Buds Guile Hero Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Evil Is Hammy Villain Ball Man on Fire Tranquil Fury Be Careful What You Wish For Genre Shift Pay Evil unto Evil Paper-Thin Disguise Ripped from the Headlines "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Cat Fight Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Pretty Little Headshots Dutch Angle A God Am I Stalker with a Crush The '80s Grey and Gray Morality Show Within a Show Big Eater Superhero Artistic License – Physics Pretty in Mink Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Missing Mom Loophole Abuse Bar Brawl Broken Aesop Brother–Sister Incest Riddle for the Ages Abhorrent Admirer Loads and Loads of Characters Evil Counterpart Naïve Newcomer Accidental Murder Improvised Weapon Unresolved Sexual Tension Never Trust a Trailer Curse Cut Short Dark and Troubled Past Zombie Stories Funny Background Event Body Horror Large Ham Captain Ersatz There Is No Kill Like Overkill Worthy Opponent Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Soft Glass Re-Cut Composite Character Unusually Uninteresting Sight The Ditz Translation Convention Freudian Excuse Dramedy Neck Lift Canadian Movies Suddenly SHOUTING! Overly Long Gag Mercy Kill Badass Normal The Lancer The '70s Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Take That! From Bad to Worse Here We Go Again! Agony of the Feet Exact Words Faux Affably Evil timeperiod Calling the Old Man Out Ambiguous Disorder Groin Attack The Smurfette Principle No Antagonist Facial Horror Karma Houdini Star-Crossed Lovers Ambiguous Ending Eiffel Tower Effect Visual Pun As Long as It Sounds Foreign Credits Gag Those Two Guys Mind Screw Not Using the "Z" Word She Cleans Up Nicely Dull Surprise The Lost Lenore Narrator Science Fiction Films Anachronic Order Henpecked Husband Badass Bookworm Earn Your Happy Ending Sequel Escalation The Stoic Decoy Protagonist Token Minority Fantastic Racism Early Installment Weirdness Bury Your Gays Affably Evil Disguised in Drag Not What It Looks Like Conspicuous CG All Men Are Perverts Moment Killer Friend to All Children Good Is Not Nice Woman Scorned How We Got Here Destination Defenestration Framing Device Expy Thriller You Have Failed Me folderlabel Cool Shades Retcon An Aesop This Is Gonna Suck Green-Eyed Monster Naked People Are Funny Deconstruction Action Girl More Dakka Hair-Trigger Temper Slasher Smile You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Non-Indicative Name Anti-Villain Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Rape as Drama Pragmatic Villainy Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Vampire Fiction Red Herring Left the Background Music On Epic Movie Your Head A-Splode Badass in a Nice Suit Artistic License – History Heel Realization Aluminum Christmas Trees Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Beta Couple Small Name, Big Ego Exactly What It Says on the Tin Pre-Mortem One-Liner Eureka Moment Auto Erotica Our Zombies Are Different Casting Gag Fun with Acronyms I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Ominous Latin Chanting Guns Akimbo Expository Hairstyle Change Big Fancy House Line-of-Sight Name "Well Done, Son!" 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