Tropescilloscope: War Is Hell

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