Tropescilloscope: War Is Hell

War sucks. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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