Tropescilloscope: War Is Hell

War sucks. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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