Tropescilloscope: War Is Hell

War sucks. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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