Tropescilloscope: Action Genre

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