Tropescilloscope: The Cavalry

Reinforcements for a last-second dramatic rescue of the heroes. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Light Is Not Good War Is Hell Taking You with Me Failed a Spot Check Informed Ability No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Blackmail Narrator Be Careful What You Wish For Meaningful Name Based on a True Story Punch-Clock Villain Really Gets Around Unusual Euphemism Humans Are Bastards Red Right Hand It Will Never Catch On Off-into-the-Distance Ending Anti-Hero Fatal Family Photo Neck Lift Wicked Cultured The Remake Noodle Incident Stock Footage Serious Business Super Strength Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Exact Words Mexican Standoff Attempted Rape Dual Wielding You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! 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Non-Indicative Name Make It Look Like an Accident Deliberately Monochrome Eiffel Tower Effect Cassandra Truth Camera Abuse Unreliable Narrator Paper-Thin Disguise Red Eyes, Take Warning Oh, Crap! Domestic Abuse Decoy Protagonist Imagine Spot Shell-Shocked Veteran Motor Mouth Tempting Fate Mythology Gag Expy Guns Akimbo Sanity Slippage Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene What Happened to the Mouse? Death by Irony Bottomless Magazines Monumental Damage Celebrity Paradox Curb-Stomp Battle Big Fancy House Bolivian Army Ending Black Comedy Rape Your Cheating Heart Kids Are Cruel Sexy Discretion Shot Real Life Breaking the Fourth Wall What the Hell, Hero? Would Hurt a Child The Ditz Gone Horribly Right Suddenly SHOUTING! Darker and Edgier Foil Overprotective Dad The Alleged Car Combat Pragmatist N-Word Privileges Dissonant Serenity B-Movie Canadian Movies Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Crazy Jealous Guy Mama Bear Extremely Short Timespan Fanservice Face–Heel Turn Hero Antagonist Sacrificial Lion Red Oni, Blue Oni Betty and Veronica Genre Shift Artistic License – Physics Improvised Weapon Rule of Three Needs Wiki Magic Love Works Set in World War II Affectionate Parody The Ghost Dark Action Girl Big Brother Instinct All There in the Manual Hate Sink Man on Fire Actor Allusion Psychopathic Manchild Soundtrack Dissonance Deus ex Machina Creative Closing Credits Aluminum Christmas Trees Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Age Lift Gratuitous English Riddle for the Ages Funny Foreigner Honor Before Reason Time Skip Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Tranquil Fury Killed Mid-Sentence Adaptation Name Change Loophole Abuse Downer Ending Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Stealth Hi/Bye Pyrrhic Victory Not So Stoic Brother–Sister Incest Artistic License – Biology Every Car Is a Pinto Married to the Job Cat Scare Race Lift The Power of Love Evil Plan Fiery Redhead Famous Last Words No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Eagleland Artistic License – Law Dumb Blonde Kubrick Stare Last-Name Basis Christmas Movies Index Adaptational Villainy You Killed My Father Made of Explodium Wham Line Advertised Extra "The Reason You Suck" Speech Big Bad Duumvirate Drowning My Sorrows Fat Bastard Here We Go Again! Double-Meaning Title Market-Based Title Cowboy Cop Did Not Get the Girl Groin Attack Bond Villain Stupidity Animated Credits Opening Body Horror Gold Digger You Have Failed Me Artistic License – Military For the Evulz La Résistance Fun with Acronyms Reality Is Unrealistic Ambiguously Gay Beard of Evil Pragmatic Villainy Adult Fear Manic Pixie Dream Girl Action Girl Pet the Dog Cloudcuckoolander Bait-and-Switch Bad "Bad Acting" My Beloved Smother Knife Nut Heel Realization Dirty Old Man Broken Bird Easily Forgiven Eye Scream Beauty Is Never Tarnished Fainting One Steve Limit Ambiguous Ending Country Matters The Vamp Never My Fault I Have Your Wife Empathic Environment Bald of Evil Reasonable Authority Figure Jitter Cam Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Those Two Bad Guys The Dreaded Adaptational Heroism Cruel and Unusual Death Romantic Comedy Vitriolic Best Buds Police Brutality Adorkable Fantasy Films Belligerent Sexual Tension Bond One-Liner Woman Scorned Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Red Shirt Immune to Bullets Alpha Bitch "Well Done, Son!" Guy MacGuffin I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Sassy Black Woman Dirty Cop Enemy Mine Bad Boss A Date with Rosie Palms Drill Sergeant Nasty Totally Radical Action Prologue Sealed Evil in a Can Villainous Breakdown Unspoken Plan Guarantee In Medias Res Cool Old Guy Pimped-Out Dress All for Nothing Disappeared Dad Half the Man He Used to Be Bar Brawl The Load Toplessness from the Back Ripped from the Headlines Anguished Declaration of Love Amoral Attorney Soft Glass Greater-Scope Villain Closed Circle The Chessmaster Re-Cut Morality Pet Redemption Equals Death Screw This, I'm Outta Here! An Aesop Implacable Man Meaningful Echo Hong Kong Films Interrupted Suicide Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Suspiciously Similar Substitute Covers Always Lie Meaningful Background Event Agony of the Feet The Ace Leave the Camera Running Blood from the Mouth He Knows Too Much Humiliation Conga A Father to His Men Contrived Coincidence Cluster F-Bomb Bland-Name Product Television Movie Index Armor-Piercing Question Card-Carrying Villain Big "NO!" Reckless Gun Usage Dark and Troubled Past Real Life Writes the Plot Small Name, Big Ego Death by Adaptation Nice Guy The Smurfette Principle Cain and Abel Air-Vent Passageway Evil Is Petty Sole Survivor Break the Haughty Gainax Ending The Dragon Slasher Smile She Cleans Up Nicely Instant Death Bullet The X of Y Sir Swears-a-Lot Not So Above It All 20 Minutes into the Future Line-of-Sight Name Logo Joke The Oner Damsel in Distress Author Avatar Plucky Comic Relief No Name Given Worthy Opponent Not So Different Madness Mantra Rousing Speech Adaptational Attractiveness Badass Grandpa Jump Scare Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Spanner in the Works Loads and Loads of Characters Plot Hole Knight Templar Not What It Looks Like Slashed Throat Karma Houdini Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Up to Eleven Mood Whiplash Asshole Victim Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Bullying a Dragon Leaning on the Fourth Wall A.I. Is a Crapshoot Gorn "Awesome McCool" Name Double Entendre Brutal Honesty "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Kick the Son of a Bitch Hell Is That Noise Rated M for Manly Scary Black Man Only a Flesh Wound Men Are the Expendable Gender Wretched Hive Only in It for the Money Trailers Always Spoil Evil Counterpart Same Language Dub Martial Arts Movie All There in the Script Boom, Headshot! Science Fiction Films Death Seeker Obviously Evil Bloodier and Gorier The Voiceless Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Bring My Brown Pants Off with His Head! An Arm and a Leg A God Am I Hair-Trigger Temper Left the Background Music On Skewed Priorities Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Lampshade Hanging Nothing Is Scarier Five-Man Band Evil vs. Evil Video Credits Pay Evil unto Evil Only Known by Their Nickname Villain Ball Death Glare Fingore Dirty Coward Evil Laugh No-Sell Gilligan Cut Vampire Fiction Pretty in Mink Male Frontal Nudity Tap on the Head German Films Vacation Films Authority Equals Asskicking May–December Romance Big Damn Heroes Badass in a Nice Suit You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Pretty Little Headshots Properly Paranoid Very Loosely Based on a True Story Overly Long Gag I Need a Freaking Drink Abusive Parents Older Than They Look Karmic Death After the End Manchild Dropped a Bridge on Him Funny Background Event Scare Chord Love at First Sight Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Darkest Hour Kick the Dog Establishing Character Moment No OSHA Compliance Well-Intentioned Extremist folderlabel The Great Depression Babies Ever After Mighty Whitey Casting Gag Sports Stories Evil-Detecting Dog Obstructive Bureaucrat Homage From Nobody to Nightmare Even Evil Has Loved Ones Jerkass Has a Point Together in Death Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Would Hit a Girl Even Evil Has Standards Rich Bitch Destination Defenestration Diabolus ex Machina Yandere Revenge Getting Crap Past the Radar Rule of Symbolism Disney Villain Death Historical Hero Upgrade Blatant Lies Documentary Book-Ends Costume Porn Alas, Poor Villain Bloody Hilarious Moment Killer What You Are in the Dark Rewatch Bonus I Did What I Had to Do French Films Badass Longcoat Retcon Big-Bad Ensemble Reality Ensues Match Cut Idiot Ball Neck Snap Jerk Jock Conspicuous CG Mr. Fanservice Dogged Nice Guy Military and Warfare Films Framing Device Ax-Crazy Brainless Beauty The Starscream Offscreen Moment of Awesome Star-Crossed Lovers More Dakka Stylistic Suck Token Minority Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Not Quite Dead Dark Reprise Sinister Minister Call-Forward Dramatic Irony Eyepatch of Power Genre Savvy Biopic Captain Obvious In the Back Adapted Out Arch-Enemy Mystery and Detective Films Arc Words Made of Iron Dutch Angle Deadpan Snarker Have a Gay Old Time Cool Car Our Vampires Are Different Almost Kiss Freeze-Frame Bonus Offscreen Teleportation Shout-Out Italian Films Leitmotif Taking the Bullet The Faceless Guile Hero Animal Title Index Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Bare Your Midriff Ominous Latin Chanting Handicapped Badass Show Within a Show Shirtless Scene Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Fate Worse than Death Hypocritical Humor Parental Incest Major Injury Underreaction Poor Communication Kills Determinator aka: The Determinator Fake Shemp Setting Update Black and Gray Morality Does Not Like Shoes The Hero Dies Bavarian Fire Drill Department of Redundancy Department Anti-Villain Disguised in Drag Arranged Marriage Victoria's Secret Compartment As the Good Book Says... Retirony Protagonist Title Hollywood Darkness Never Found the Body Outrun the Fireball Defiant to the End Silence Is Golden Random Events Plot Cool Old Lady Room Full of Crazy Film Noir Index Canon Foreigner Adaptational Badass Evil Brit Chekhov's Gun I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Badass Normal Smoking Is Cool All Men Are Perverts Four-Temperament Ensemble Villain with Good Publicity Adaptation Expansion Character Development An Axe to Grind British Films Adults Are Useless Determinator As Himself Action Survivor Chiaroscuro Dark Is Not Evil Due to the Dead Fatal Flaw Australian Movies '80s Hair Anachronic Order Manly Tears Stalker with a Crush Shipper on Deck Parental Neglect Bunny-Ears Lawyer The Bully As Long as It Sounds Foreign Self-Deprecation Fish out of Water Dull Surprise "Shaggy Dog" Story Slasher Movie Despair Event Horizon Reality Has No Subtitles Beware the Nice Ones Historical Villain Upgrade Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold The Stoner Slap-Slap-Kiss Fanservice Extra And the Adventure Continues Broken Aesop Cool Shades Epic Fail Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Mistaken for Gay Shown Their Work Kill It with Fire Shoot the Shaggy Dog Politically Incorrect Villain Black Best Friend Catch-Phrase Improbable Aiming Skills Mugging the Monster Fire-Forged Friends Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique There Is No Kill Like Overkill The Alcoholic Intrepid Reporter Corpsing Crucified Hero Shot Race Against the Clock Early Installment Weirdness All Just a Dream Daddy's Girl Refuge in Audacity Visual Pun Henpecked Husband Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Let's Get Dangerous! 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The Stinger Foregone Conclusion Horror Films Chekhov's Gunman Deliberate Values Dissonance Beta Couple Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? 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Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil The Chick Antagonist Title Wrong Genre Savvy Not Even Bothering with the Accent The Atoner Laughing Mad Crapsack World Black Comedy Epic Movie Running Gag Straight Gay True Companions Important Haircut Exactly What It Says on the Tin