Tropescilloscope: Stuff Blowing Up

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