Tropescilloscope: War Is Hell

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