Tropescilloscope: Storming the Castle

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

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