Tropescilloscope: Works Set in World War II

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