Tropescilloscope: War Is Hell

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