Tropescilloscope: Works Set in World War II

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