Tropescilloscope: War Is Hell

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