Tropescilloscope: Man on Fire

People burn very easily. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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