Tropescilloscope: War Is Hell

War sucks. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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