Tropescilloscope: War Is Hell

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