Tropescilloscope: War Is Hell

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