Tropescilloscope: Taking the Bullet

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

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