Tropescilloscope: Taking the Bullet

Shielding someone with your own body. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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