Tropescilloscope: Storming the Castle

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

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Is a Crapshoot Blood from the Mouth Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience And the Adventure Continues She Cleans Up Nicely For Want of a Nail Soft Glass Domestic Abuse The Mafia The Reveal Malevolent Masked Men Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Would Hurt a Child The Bully Imagine Spot Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Early Installment Weirdness Based on a True Story The Film of the Book The Cavalry Australian Movies Up to Eleven Empathic Environment Left the Background Music On The Power of Love All Girls Want Bad Boys Scenery Gorn Break the Haughty Unspoken Plan Guarantee Depraved Bisexual Rule of Funny Cat Scare Star-Crossed Lovers Abusive Parents Bloodier and Gorier Light Is Not Good Rasputinian Death Those Two Guys Christmas Movies Index The Place Mundane Made Awesome 20 Minutes into the Future Throwing Your Sword Always Works Disguised in Drag Ripped from the Headlines Implacable Man Parental Incest Pragmatic Adaptation Eyepatch of Power Attempted Rape Beard of Evil Bitch in Sheep's Clothing "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Psycho for Hire Hooker with a Heart of Gold Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday He Who Fights Monsters Darker and Edgier Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Dutch Angle Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Vomit Indiscretion Shot Works Set in World War II Word of God Chewing the Scenery Slasher Movie Wounded Gazelle Gambit Mind Screw Large Ham Adaptation Name Change Meet Cute Cluster F-Bomb The Oner Fourth Date Marriage Very Loosely Based on a True Story Damsel in Distress Retcon Face–Heel Turn Rich Bitch Evil Counterpart Male Gaze Leitmotif Guile Hero Berserk Button Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Romantic Comedy Mystery and Detective Films One Steve Limit Be Careful What You Wish For Fingore Pimped-Out Dress Not So Above It All Stock Footage Boom, Headshot! Sexy Discretion Shot Action Survivor Dressing as the Enemy Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Race Against the Clock The '50s Enemy Mine No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Sci-Fi Horror Dark Reprise Daddy's Girl Heroic Sacrifice From Bad to Worse Manic Pixie Dream Girl In Medias Res Gold Digger Punch-Clock Villain Genre Savvy Match Cut Protagonist Title Determinator Blatant Lies Hope Spot Film Noir Index Freeze-Frame Bonus As You Know Famous Last Words Broken Bird Anyone Can Die Meaningful Echo The Quiet One Camp Gay Bond Villain Stupidity Romantic False Lead Black and Gray Morality French Films Big-Bad Ensemble Worthy Opponent Monumental Damage No Ending Index of Film Westerns Informed Ability Tempting Fate Here We Go Again! Auto Erotica The Alcoholic Tranquil Fury Mugging the Monster Death by Adaptation Ambiguous Disorder No Name Given The Big Guy "The Reason You Suck" Speech Dramatic Irony Bad "Bad Acting" Disproportionate Retribution Our Vampires Are Different Pre-Mortem One-Liner Twist Ending Chiaroscuro Took a Level in Badass Hero Antagonist Adorkable Curse Cut Short Author Appeal Chekhov's Gunman A God Am I Pretty in Mink Karmic Death Film Series The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Sole Survivor A Father to His Men Deliberately Monochrome Ironic Echo Early-Bird Cameo Moment Killer Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Scare Chord Country Matters Product Placement Meaningful Background Event Bound and Gagged Neck Lift Title Drop Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Rewatch Bonus Novelization The Voiceless How We Got Here Hell Is That Noise Green-Eyed Monster Nice Hat Smoking Is Cool Badass in a Nice Suit Big Bad Duumvirate Film Noir Same Language Dub Back from the Dead Never My Fault Shoot the Shaggy Dog Deliberate Values Dissonance Extremely Short Timespan An Arm and a Leg Redshirt Army Honor Before Reason Action Genre The Dreaded Riddle for the Ages Failed a Spot Check Armor-Piercing Question Costume Porn Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Meaningful Name Action Girl Bunny-Ears Lawyer Villain Ball Dark Is Not Evil As Long as It Sounds Foreign Funny Background Event Artistic License – Military The Stinger Agony of the Feet Broken Aesop Big Eater Villain Opening Scene Sacrificial Lion Chekhov's Skill Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Missing Mom Kubrick Stare Darkest Hour Skewed Priorities Laser-Guided Karma The Brute Motor Mouth Red Shirt Death of a Child Bar Brawl Well-Intentioned Extremist Becoming the Mask Character Development Cool Old Guy All for Nothing True Companions Gory Discretion Shot Even Evil Has Standards Artistic License – Biology Ass Shove Department of Redundancy Department Spell My Name with an "S" Dirty Cop Jump Scare Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Heel Realization Hypocritical Humor I Have Your Wife Vomit Discretion Shot Dull Surprise Only Sane Man Author Avatar I Need a Freaking Drink Logo Joke Sequel Hook For the Evulz Paper-Thin Disguise Taking You with Me Your Head A-Splode Spared by the Adaptation Get Out! Ax-Crazy One-Word Title Soundtrack Dissonance Artistic License – Physics Heroes Want Redheads Improbable Aiming Skills Poor Communication Kills Card-Carrying Villain Politically Incorrect Villain Double Entendre Captain Obvious The Smurfette Principle Rousing Speech Accidental Murder The Alleged Car Jitter Cam Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Jerk with a Heart of Gold Flashback Crazy-Prepared Badass Boast Call-Back Bilingual Bonus Random Events Plot Made of Explodium Big Damn Heroes Insane Troll Logic Aluminum Christmas Trees Never Trust a Trailer Hoist by His Own Petard Fan Disservice Affably Evil Foil Punny Name Big Brother Instinct Public Domain Feature Films Pretty Little Headshots Sealed Evil in a Can The Chessmaster Adaptation Dye-Job Asshole Victim Your Cheating Heart Only Known by Their Nickname Homage The Sociopath Break the Cutie Deal with the Devil Arranged Marriage Took a Level in Jerkass Ms. Fanservice Corrupt Corporate Executive Mythology Gag Bare Your Midriff Biopic Award-Bait Song Dirty Old Man Offscreen Teleportation Antagonist Title Facial Horror From Nobody to Nightmare Cat Fight Time Skip Does Not Like Shoes Drowning My Sorrows Taking the Bullet It's Personal Even Evil Has Loved Ones Chase Scene No-Holds-Barred Beatdown And Starring Eldritch Abomination Book-Ends Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Bullying a Dragon Covers Always Lie Dramatic Gun Cock Crapsack World Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Black Best Friend Kids Are Cruel Dual Wielding Tap on the Head Hidden Depths Good Is Not Nice Eye Scream Horror Comedy Downer Ending Older Than They Look The Ditz Anachronic Order Totally Radical Foregone Conclusion Creepy Child Adult Fear One-Man Army Vitriolic Best Buds Once More, with Clarity! BFG I'm a Humanitarian Dwindling Party Those Wacky Nazis Spiteful Spit Thriller Shown Their Work Body Horror Names to Run Away from Really Fast Psychopathic Manchild Drives Like Crazy Offscreen Moment of Awesome Married to the Job Comically Missing the Point Catapult Nightmare Butt-Monkey Vampire Fiction Stalker with a Crush Lighter and Softer The Load Bury Your Gays Take That! 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Death by Sex Nothing Is Scarier Suspiciously Specific Denial Historical Villain Upgrade Decoy Protagonist Maybe Ever After Groin Attack Adaptational Villainy What Happened to the Mouse? 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Is Serious Business My Greatest Failure Improvised Weapon Earn Your Happy Ending Reality Ensues World of Ham Anachronism Stew Shower Scene Not So Stoic Hate Sink Credits Gag Ghost Fiction Exact Words Friend to All Children Fanservice Love at First Sight Training Montage Retired Badass The Remake Conspicuous CG Whole Plot Reference Heel–Face Turn Bolivian Army Ending Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Mistaken for Gay Dogged Nice Guy Anti-Hero Woman Scorned Only in It for the Money Fish out of Water Wham Shot The Starscream As the Good Book Says... Establishing Character Moment Mexican Standoff In Name Only Funny Foreigner Zombie Stories Hong Kong Films Lock and Load Montage Actor Allusion After the End Framing Device Death Glare Retirony Fate Worse than Death Serious Business Real Life Police Brutality Cold-Blooded Torture This Is Gonna Suck Deconstruction Brother–Sister Incest Fanservice Extra Villain Protagonist The Dog Bites Back Closed Circle Unreliable Narrator Horror Films Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Determinator aka: The Determinator Brainless Beauty Dissonant Serenity An Axe to Grind Storming the Castle NO INDOOR VOICE Say My Name Age Lift An Aesop Music Stories Badass Bookworm Ominous Latin Chanting Mama Bear Reasonable Authority Figure Did Not Get the Girl Badass Longcoat Trailers Always Spoil Toplessness from the Back Parental Abandonment Anguished Declaration of Love Despair Event Horizon The Un-Reveal More Dakka Reckless Gun Usage Bald of Evil Slashed Throat Made of Iron Daylight Horror Fatal Family Photo Vacation Films The Great Depression Self-Deprecation May–December Romance Evil Laugh It Will Never Catch On Due to the Dead Pragmatic Villainy Adapted Out Genre Throwback Plucky Comic Relief The Lost Lenore Major Injury Underreaction Running Gag Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Jerkass Cruel and Unusual Death "Well Done, Son!" Guy Bittersweet Ending Peek-a-Boo Corpse Revenge Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Super Strength Drill Sergeant Nasty Narrator Mood Whiplash Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Belligerent Sexual Tension Eiffel Tower Effect Beta Couple Pyrrhic Victory Happily Married The '80s Fantastic Racism Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Bottomless Magazines Villainous Breakdown Ungrateful Bastard Sadistic Choice Cain and Abel Obfuscating Stupidity Camera Abuse Knife Nut No-Sell Not Even Bothering with the Accent Big Applesauce Dramedy Television Movie Index The Hero Shut Up, Hannibal! Villain Song Disappeared Dad Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Adaptational Heroism Setting Update War Is Hell Spiritual Successor Morality Pet Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Rule of Cool N-Word Privileges "Awesome McCool" Name Naïve Newcomer Aside Glance Manly Tears Half the Man He Used to Be Slap-Slap-Kiss Victoria's Secret Compartment Show Within a Show Final Girl Reality Has No Subtitles Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! 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Sassy Black Woman Take a Third Option Ship Tease Intrepid Reporter Outrun the Fireball Ascended Extra All Just a Dream Love Triangle Eureka Moment British Films Stealth Pun Manchild Instant Death Bullet Fainting Black Dude Dies First Madness Mantra Sanity Slippage The Ace Suspiciously Similar Substitute Red Right Hand Parental Substitute Ambiguous Ending Apocalypse How No Celebrities Were Harmed Italian Films Heroic BSoD You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Overprotective Dad Evil Sounds Deep Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Adaptational Attractiveness Wicked Cultured Big "NO!" 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They Really Do Love Each Other Visual Pun Gratuitous English Canon Foreigner Documentary Stealth Hi/Bye Hollywood Law Disney Villain Death The Faceless Dark Action Girl Contrived Coincidence Stuff Blowing Up You Killed My Father She's Got Legs Wretched Hive Awesome, but Impractical Babies Ever After Shirtless Scene Expository Hairstyle Change Dirty Coward Casting Gag Faux Affably Evil Wrong Genre Savvy Children Are Innocent timeperiod Stepford Smiler Black Comedy Betty and Veronica A Date with Rosie Palms Fun with Acronyms MacGuffin Reality Is Unrealistic Handicapped Badass Loads and Loads of Characters Leave the Camera Running Coming-of-Age Story Bring My Brown Pants Bond One-Liner Frame-Up Continuity Nod Bloody Hilarious Evil-Detecting Dog Woman in White Wham Line Leaning on the Fourth Wall Really Gets Around Refuge in Audacity The Stoner Yandere Air-Vent Passageway Henpecked Husband Last-Name Basis Captain Ersatz Laughing Mad Lampshade Hanging Artistic License – Geography Small Name, Big Ego Man on Fire Humiliation Conga Car Fu Kick the Son of a Bitch I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Suddenly SHOUTING! 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Jerkass Has a Point Animated Credits Opening Animal Motifs Artistic License – History Our Zombies Are Different Brutal Honesty Hero of Another Story You Have Failed Me Real Life Writes the Plot The Musical Kill It with Fire Unusual Euphemism Smug Snake Rule of Three Posthumous Character Badass Normal Improbable Weapon User Breaking the Fourth Wall Bad Boss Rule of Symbolism The '70s The '90s Pay Evil unto Evil Big Bad