Tropescilloscope: Works Set in World War II

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