Tropescilloscope: Improbable Weapon User

This character's Weapon of Choice is usually an Improvised Weapon. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Epilogue Asshole Victim Extreme Doormat Anachronism Stew Mugging the Monster As Himself Death of a Child Married to the Job Becoming the Mask Girl-on-Girl Is Hot The Lancer Outrun the Fireball Humiliation Conga The '70s Abhorrent Admirer Too Dumb to Live Hoist by His Own Petard Ambiguous Ending Vacation Films Paper-Thin Disguise Love Triangle Fingore Adaptational Heroism More Dakka The Cameo Affably Evil Dramatic Irony Creator Cameo Vampire Fiction Rich Bitch Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? BFG Mexican Standoff Unusual Euphemism Kick the Dog The Dreaded Sexy Discretion Shot Fan Disservice Leaning on the Fourth Wall Took a Level in Badass Failed a Spot Check In Name Only No Ending Politically Incorrect Villain Smug Snake Anti-Hero Shown Their Work And the Adventure Continues Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass All for Nothing Recycled IN SPACE! Covers Always Lie Horror Comedy Dirty Cop Bond One-Liner Adaptational Attractiveness The Big Guy Tap on the Head Cain and Abel Blood from the Mouth Big "NO!" Dull Surprise Deconstruction Hidden Depths War Is Hell Gainax Ending Market-Based Title Fish out of Water The Oner Not So Above It All Shut Up, Hannibal! Peek-a-Boo Corpse He Who Fights Monsters Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Big Bad Chewing the Scenery Dramedy Call-Forward Soft Glass An Aesop Red Herring Storming the Castle Gratuitous English Rule of Three Anachronic Order Instant Death Bullet Badass Grandpa British Films Arc Words The Smart Guy No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Visual Pun Character Development She Cleans Up Nicely Wretched Hive Manchild Straight Gay Drives Like Crazy Heroic Sacrifice Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Insult Backfire Five-Man Band Brainless Beauty Stealth Pun Ironic Echo Rule of Symbolism Spiritual Successor Victoria's Secret Compartment "The Reason You Suck" Speech Didn't Think This Through I Did What I Had to Do Rape as Drama Random Events Plot Spanner in the Works Action Genre Manipulative Bastard NO INDOOR VOICE Fourth Date Marriage Black Comedy Love at First Sight Parental Incest Death by Irony Broken Pedestal Take That! Empathic Environment Badass Bookworm Hero of Another Story Bloody Hilarious Silence Is Golden Wounded Gazelle Gambit Sci-Fi Horror Male Gaze Artistic License – Geography Cold-Blooded Torture No OSHA Compliance Adaptation Expansion Face–Heel Turn Throwing Your Sword Always Works Author Avatar Sadistic Choice Never My Fault Black and Gray Morality Science Fiction Films Foreshadowing The Hero Dies How We Got Here And Starring Canon Foreigner Stealth Hi/Bye Pet the Dog Creative Closing Credits Sequel Escalation Even Evil Has Loved Ones Papa Wolf Chekhov's Gunman Bait-and-Switch Twist Ending Children Are Innocent Hollywood Darkness Historical Hero Upgrade Informed Ability As You Know Annoying Younger Sibling Drugs Are Bad Hell Is That Noise Foregone Conclusion Refuge in Audacity The Load Bad "Bad Acting" Villain Ball Captain Ersatz Hate Sink Bar Brawl All There in the Script All Men Are Perverts Martial Arts Movie Retcon Actor Allusion No Name Given Eye Scream Needs Wiki Magic Love The Lost Lenore Extremely Short Timespan The Dragon Leitmotif Nice Guy A God Am I Grey and Gray Morality Grievous Bottley Harm Berserk Button Frame-Up Eyepatch of Power timeperiod Adaptational Badass Star-Crossed Lovers Plucky Comic Relief Psychological Thriller Artistic License – Gun Safety Bond Villain Stupidity No-Sell Hong Kong Films Anguished Declaration of Love Combat Pragmatist The Ditz Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! 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They Really Do Love Each Other Dumb Blonde Bring My Brown Pants Based on a True Story The Hero Never Trust a Trailer Broken Aesop Homage Crapsack World As the Good Book Says... Blatant Lies The Starscream Composite Character Amoral Attorney The Stoic Mr. Exposition Evil Plan Faking the Dead Genre Throwback The '60s What You Are in the Dark Creepy Child The '80s Jerkass Has a Point Disney Villain Death Historical Villain Upgrade Laughing Mad Gilligan Cut Get Out! 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Heel Realization Wrong Genre Savvy You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Rule of Cool Parental Substitute Celebrity Paradox Posthumous Character Anti-Villain Conspicuous CG Curse Cut Short Funny Foreigner Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Imagine Spot Only One Name The Place Skewed Priorities Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane B-Movie Dark Reprise Adaptational Villainy Bare Your Midriff What Happened to the Mouse? Adapted Out Evil Is Petty Punny Name Nothing Is Scarier What the Hell, Hero? Irony An Axe to Grind Awesome, but Impractical Attempted Rape Bittersweet Ending Mood Whiplash Alliterative Name Disney Death Tranquil Fury Stuff Blowing Up Rasputinian Death Film Noir Index Tagline Honor Before Reason Well-Intentioned Extremist The Bully Adaptation Name Change Ax-Crazy Together in Death May–December Romance Mistaken for Gay Sir Swears-a-Lot In the Back Evil Counterpart Fantastic Racism Red Right Hand Badass Normal Dressing as the Enemy My Greatest Failure Non-Indicative Name Race Lift My Beloved Smother Badass in a Nice Suit The Casanova Plot Hole Shower Scene Older Than They Look Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Be Careful What You Wish For Award-Bait Song This Is Gonna Suck Screw the Rules, I Have Money! The Quiet One Not Even Bothering with the Accent The Smurfette Principle Product Placement Would Hurt a Child Actually Pretty Funny Translation Convention Dark Is Not Evil Only Known by Their Nickname Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Deadpan Snarker All Just a Dream Offscreen Moment of Awesome Sequel Hook My God, What Have I Done? Crazy-Prepared Naked People Are Funny Jump Scare All There in the Manual Very Loosely Based on a True Story Playing Gertrude Dark and Troubled Past Double Entendre Pyrrhic Victory Romantic False Lead Sinister Minister Fatal Flaw Mama Bear Brutal Honesty Femme Fatale It's Personal Cool Old Lady Danny Peary Cult Movies List I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Obviously Evil Antagonist Title Australian Movies Book-Ends Fat Bastard Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Pre-Mortem One-Liner Cool Car Scary Black Man Up to Eleven Four-Temperament Ensemble Green-Eyed Monster Faux Affably Evil Evil Is Hammy Have a Gay Old Time Slasher Movie Works Set in World War II Adaptation Dye-Job Disguised in Drag Reality Is Unrealistic Final Girl Karma Houdini Male Frontal Nudity Artistic License – Physics Diabolus ex Machina Hollywood Law Leave the Camera Running The Brute French Films Japanese Films Daddy's Girl After the End Kids Are Cruel Big Brother Instinct A Father to His Men Mooks Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Daylight Horror Wham Line Retired Badass Bunny-Ears Lawyer Manic Pixie Dream Girl Superhero Pay Evil unto Evil Television Movie Index Deal with the Devil Fainting Vomit Discretion Shot Biopic Does This Remind You of Anything? The Un-Reveal Obstructive Bureaucrat Jerk with a Heart of Gold Improvised Weapon Artistic License – Military The Atoner It Can Think Killed Mid-Sentence Funny Background Event Sassy Black Woman Developing Doomed Characters Big Damn Heroes The Chessmaster Corpsing Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Undying Loyalty As Long as It Sounds Foreign Cluster F-Bomb Action Girl Tempting Fate Film Noir Calling the Old Man Out Improbable Weapon User I Have Your Wife Demoted to Extra Darkest Hour Match Cut Blood Knight Race Against the Clock Animated Credits Opening Ms. Fanservice Death Glare Hypocrite No Celebrities Were Harmed The Great Depression Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Epic Fail Pragmatic Villainy Shell-Shocked Veteran Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Whole Plot Reference The Sociopath Our Vampires Are Different Disappeared Dad There Is No Kill Like Overkill Hypocritical Humor Not So Stoic Zombie Stories Bullying a Dragon Bald of Evil Guns Akimbo Eureka Moment Apocalypse How Dutch Angle Half the Man He Used to Be La Résistance Unwitting Instigator of Doom Henpecked Husband Dramatic Gun Cock Scenery Porn Kill 'em All Small Name, Big Ego The Cavalry Once More, with Clarity! All Girls Want Bad Boys O.O.C. Is Serious Business Epic Movie Catapult Nightmare Room Full of Crazy Ungrateful Bastard Establishing Character Moment Fire-Forged Friends Those Wacky Nazis Names to Run Away from Really Fast Fun with Acronyms German Films The Stinger Bolivian Army Ending Foil Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer For the Evulz Overprotective Dad Framing Device Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Never Found the Body Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Bottomless Magazines Suspiciously Similar Substitute Ass Shove Body Horror Woman in White Vitriolic Best Buds Easily Forgiven Central Theme Our Zombies Are Different Only in It for the Money Artistic License – Biology Captain Obvious Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Ambiguous Disorder Bilingual Bonus Dirty Old Man A Date with Rosie Palms Reckless Gun Usage Logo Joke Serious Business Babies Ever After Exactly What It Says on the Tin Damsel in Distress Military and Warfare Films Karmic Death Novelization Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Black Dude Dies First Artistic License – Law Broken Bird Serial Killer Destination Defenestration Villain with Good Publicity The Remake Mercy Kill Car Fu Motor Mouth Badass Longcoat Meaningful Background Event Ripped from the Headlines Ambiguously Gay Meaningful Echo Shout-Out Protagonist Title Sole Survivor Beard of Evil Taking You with Me Mundane Made Awesome Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Truth in Television Nice Hat Early Installment Weirdness Cassandra Truth Hooker with a Heart of Gold Camp Gay Department of Redundancy Department Back from the Dead Oh, Crap! Adaptation Distillation Pragmatic Adaptation Handicapped Badass Index of Film Westerns Air-Vent Passageway Man on Fire Left the Background Music On Rewatch Bonus Reality Has No Subtitles Suddenly SHOUTING! Hero Antagonist Bowdlerise Death Seeker Lighter and Softer Worthy Opponent Rule of Funny Scenery Gorn Here We Go Again! Overly Long Gag Idiot Ball Roaring Rampage of Revenge Parental Abandonment Freeze-Frame Bonus Real Life Crazy Jealous Guy Title Drop The Mafia Advertised Extra Animal Title Index Cool Old Guy Flashback Documentary Action Survivor 20 Minutes into the Future Fatal Family Photo Dying Moment of Awesome The Chick The Musical The Reveal Shirtless Scene Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Jitter Cam The Stoner Narrator Token Minority I'm a Humanitarian Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Cloudcuckoolander Spiteful Spit Agony of the Feet I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Line-of-Sight Name Big Eater Blackmail Your Head A-Splode Closed Circle Expository Hairstyle Change Pretty Little Headshots Drill Sergeant Nasty Gender Flip She's Got Legs Police Brutality Punch-Clock Villain Poor Communication Kills Evil Brit Getting Crap Past the Radar Canadian Movies Every Car Is a Pinto Pretty in Mink "Well Done, Son!" Guy One-Man Army Slasher Smile Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Police are Useless Totally Radical Took a Level in Jerkass From Bad to Worse '80s Hair Adult Fear Beta Couple Word of God Bad Boss