Tropescilloscope: BFG

A gun so huge that a single person shouldn't be able to heft it. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Epilogue Rule of Three Death by Adaptation Fourth Date Marriage "Awesome McCool" Name Artistic License – Geography Friend to All Children All There in the Script Heel Realization Market-Based Title Even Evil Has Loved Ones Bland-Name Product Police Brutality Greater-Scope Villain Paper-Thin Disguise I Want My Beloved to Be Happy folderlabel Jitter Cam Instant Death Bullet Continuity Nod War Is Hell Fainting Product Placement Parental Abandonment Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Woman in White Chekhov's Gun Crucified Hero Shot Happily Married Foregone Conclusion Double Entendre Contrived Coincidence Adorkable Defiant to the End Unresolved Sexual Tension Rousing Speech Attempted Rape Beta Couple Brutal Honesty Adults Are Useless Handicapped Badass Super Strength Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Title Drop Dark Is Not Evil Shell-Shocked Veteran A God Am I Documentary Room Full of Crazy timeperiod Call-Forward Music Stories Adaptational Attractiveness Line-of-Sight Name I Just Shot Marvin in the Face A Father to His Men Cain and Abel Mighty Whitey True Companions Sexy Discretion Shot Comically Missing the Point Important Haircut Badass Longcoat Based on a True Story Dissonant Serenity Historical-Domain Character Mugging the Monster From Nobody to Nightmare Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Bloodier and Gorier Curb-Stomp Battle You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! 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Redshirt Army Sacrificial Lion Laser-Guided Karma Rape as Drama Adaptation Dye-Job Unspoken Plan Guarantee Star-Crossed Lovers Missing Mom Artistic License – Military Action Prologue Rated M for Manly Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Japanese Films Laughing Mad The Brute Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Small Name, Big Ego Arranged Marriage Hate Sink Implacable Man All Just a Dream Pay Evil unto Evil Taking the Bullet Insult Backfire An Arm and a Leg Cat Scare Danny Peary Cult Movies List My God, What Have I Done? Bait-and-Switch Stalker with a Crush Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Alpha Bitch Disappeared Dad Properly Paranoid Enemy Mine Easily Forgiven Aluminum Christmas Trees Shower Scene Manipulative Bastard Very Loosely Based on a True Story Bloody Hilarious Nothing Is Scarier Madness Mantra Bury Your Gays Double-Meaning Title The Chessmaster Italian Films Horror Films Dual Wielding Not Quite Dead Fake Shemp Male Gaze Improvised Weapon Thriller Mundane Made Awesome Dramatic Gun Cock Take That! Camera Abuse The Big Guy Take a Third Option NO INDOOR VOICE You Have Failed Me Berserk Button Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Covers Always Lie The Film of the Book Spanner in the Works Maybe Ever After Expository Hairstyle Change Scare Chord Hypocrite Rewatch Bonus It's All About Me Blatant Lies Obstructive Bureaucrat Posthumous Character Lampshade Hanging Disney Death Ungrateful Bastard Mood Whiplash Spiritual Successor Dark Reprise Demoted to Extra Fan Disservice Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Dropped a Bridge on Him Would Hurt a Child Guile Hero Unusual Euphemism Plot Hole Wham Shot Time Skip Intrepid Reporter Extreme Doormat Precision F-Strike Romantic Comedy Papa Wolf Hollywood Law Married to the Job Hidden Depths Bittersweet Ending Eldritch Abomination Every Car Is a Pinto Annoying Younger Sibling No Good Deed Goes Unpunished The Great Depression Hypocritical Humor The Starscream Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? 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Straight Gay Dark Action Girl Body Horror Leaning on the Fourth Wall Deal with the Devil Psycho for Hire Hair-Trigger Temper Narrator Half the Man He Used to Be Historical Hero Upgrade Adapted Out After the End Humiliation Conga Unreliable Narrator Age Lift Facial Horror Ascended Extra Silence Is Golden A Minor Kidroduction Parental Neglect Flipping the Bird It Will Never Catch On Spared by the Adaptation Heroic Sacrifice Stepford Smiler Amusing Injuries Credits Gag Woman Scorned Playing Gertrude Off with His Head! Author Appeal Character Development The Quiet One Does This Remind You of Anything? Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Martial Arts Movie Corpsing Death Seeker It's Personal Re-Cut One-Word Title Man on Fire Ax-Crazy The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Four-Temperament Ensemble Sequel Escalation Pre-Mortem One-Liner German Films Not So Stoic Accidental Misnaming Faking the Dead Drill Sergeant Nasty Only in It for the Money Deconstruction Token Minority Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Did Not Get the Girl Punny Name Drugs Are Bad Red Right Hand Blood Knight Celebrity Paradox Stuff Blowing Up Real Life Central Theme Final Girl Batman Gambit Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Film Noir Index I'm a Humanitarian Becoming the Mask Jerkass Has a Point Biopic Names to Run Away from Really Fast Yandere Fiery Redhead Gorn Mad Scientist Kill It with Fire Roger Ebert: Great Movies List I Have Your Wife Riddle for the Ages Black Dude Dies First Insane Troll Logic Reality Is Unrealistic Let's Get Dangerous! N-Word Privileges Heel–Face Turn Kids Are Cruel No Ending Break the Cutie Get Out! Random Events Plot Brick Joke Film Noir Not Even Bothering with the Accent Big Eater Worthy Opponent Shoot the Shaggy Dog Gainax Ending Stylistic Suck Plucky Comic Relief Awesome, but Impractical Mexican Standoff Gender Flip Groin Attack The Stoic Australian Movies Genre Throwback Almost Kiss Morality Pet No Antagonist Suspiciously Similar Substitute Crazy Jealous Guy Word of God Arc Words The '90s Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Sealed Evil in a Can Bring My Brown Pants Deus ex Machina Ambiguous Ending Creepy Child Meaningful Name Captain Ersatz Arch-Enemy Action Survivor Face Death with Dignity Unwitting Instigator of Doom Show Within a Show Not Using the "Z" Word Dies Wide Open Manly Tears Animal Motifs Beauty Is Never Tarnished Wicked Cultured Large Ham Hollywood Darkness Big Brother Instinct Flashback Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Mama Bear Country Matters Epic Movie Unusually Uninteresting Sight Evil vs. Evil Fantastic Racism Gratuitous English Running Gag Smoking Is Cool Mr. Fanservice The X of Y Bitch in Sheep's Clothing There Is No Kill Like Overkill Gilligan Cut Bad Boss Shipper on Deck Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Betty and Veronica Bloodless Carnage I Need a Freaking Drink Actually Pretty Funny The Oner Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Gory Discretion Shot Eyepatch of Power Developing Doomed Characters Put on a Bus Bond Villain Stupidity O.O.C. Is Serious Business Disney Villain Death Broken Pedestal All Men Are Perverts Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Funny Foreigner Establishing Character Moment Historical In-Joke Military and Warfare Films Race Against the Clock Butt-Monkey Russian Films Bunny-Ears Lawyer Rich Bitch Reckless Gun Usage One Steve Limit Abhorrent Admirer Love at First Sight As You Know Reality Has No Subtitles Abusive Parents Hooker with a Heart of Gold Visual Pun Offscreen Teleportation Broken Aesop Extremely Short Timespan Animal Title Index Adaptation Name Change Gone Horribly Right '80s Hair Empathic Environment Adaptation Expansion Villain with Good Publicity Never Trust a Trailer The Faceless Scary Black Man Exact Words Cool Car Irony No Celebrities Were Harmed Not So Different Accidental Murder Pyrrhic Victory Horror Comedy The Hero Chewing the Scenery The Remake Darker and Edgier The Atoner The Bad Guy Wins Nice Guy Break the Haughty Stealth Pun Didn't Think This Through The Lost Lenore Death Glare Lock and Load Montage Adaptational Badass Rasputinian Death No-Sell Grey and Gray Morality Fatal Flaw For the Evulz Villain Opening Scene Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Destination Defenestration Death by Sex Reasonable Authority Figure Off-into-the-Distance Ending Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Vomit Discretion Shot Decoy Protagonist Malevolent Masked Men Drives Like Crazy Brainless Beauty Pretty in Mink Creator Cameo Pragmatic Adaptation The Dreaded Car Fu Bavarian Fire Drill Henpecked Husband Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Not What It Looks Like From Bad to Worse Punch-Clock Villain Needs Wiki Magic Love Daylight Horror Anti-Villain Creative Closing Credits Informed Ability Framing Device All Girls Want Bad Boys Adaptational Villainy Mr. Exposition Index of Film Westerns Darkest Hour Television Movie Index Big Damn Heroes Driven to Suicide Better to Die than Be Killed Manchild Deliberate Values Dissonance Revenge Anachronic Order The Voiceless Crazy-Prepared MacGuffin Evil Sounds Deep Victoria's Secret Compartment Evil Is Petty Eiffel Tower Effect No OSHA Compliance Artistic License – Biology No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Shout-Out Scenery Porn Black Comedy She's Got Legs Stealth Hi/Bye Book-Ends Evil Laugh Pretty Little Headshots The Dog Bites Back "Shaggy Dog" Story Jerk with a Heart of Gold The Mole Deliberately Monochrome Only Sane Man Despair Event Horizon The Alcoholic Neck Snap Killed Mid-Sentence Villain Ball Fatal Family Photo The Bully How We Got Here Be Careful What You Wish For "Well Done, Son!" Guy Politically Incorrect Villain Cruel and Unusual Death Agony of the Feet Evil-Detecting Dog Big Applesauce Big "NO!" Evil Brit Tempting Fate Serious Business Only a Flesh Wound For Want of a Nail Spiteful Spit Protagonist Title Sports Stories The Ace Deadpan Snarker Demonic Possession Ambiguously Gay Motor Mouth Kubrick Stare Sinister Minister Setting Update Early Installment Weirdness Cloudcuckoolander Zombie Stories The Reveal Translation Convention Action Genre Hero Antagonist Naked People Are Funny Parental Incest Cold-Blooded Torture Silent Movie Black and Gray Morality Breaking the Fourth Wall Our Zombies Are Different Failed a Spot Check Psychological Thriller Crapsack World Animated Credits Opening And the Adventure Continues Meet Cute Twist Ending Wretched Hive Diabolus ex Machina Combat Pragmatist Christmas Movies Index Affectionate Parody Air-Vent Passageway Male Frontal Nudity Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Cool Old Guy Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Dramatic Irony As Himself Badass Normal Cluster F-Bomb Back from the Dead Belligerent Sexual Tension Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! French Films 20 Minutes into the Future Ripped from the Headlines Logo Joke One-Man Army Ghost Fiction This Is Gonna Suck Overprotective Dad Authority Equals Asskicking Kick the Son of a Bitch Kick the Dog Monumental Damage Not So Above It All Ironic Echo In the Back An Axe to Grind Novelization The Vamp Redemption Equals Death Black Comedy Rape What Happened to the Mouse? Ominous Latin Chanting Dirty Coward Closed Circle Faux Affably Evil Toplessness from the Back Chekhov's Skill Your Cheating Heart BFG Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Grievous Bottley Harm Refuge in Audacity Sole Survivor Downer Ending Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Major Injury Underreaction Card-Carrying Villain Calling the Old Man Out May–December Romance Never My Fault What You Are in the Dark Match Cut Sir Swears-a-Lot Skewed Priorities Interrupted Suicide Really Gets Around Last-Name Basis Does Not Like Shoes Real Life Writes the Plot Death of a Child Knight Templar The Smurfette Principle Dark and Troubled Past Advertised Extra Mooks The Un-Reveal Took a Level in Badass Bi the Way Self-Deprecation Due to the Dead Artistic License – Gun Safety The '60s Beard of Evil The Load Famous Last Words Those Wacky Nazis Adaptational Heroism Red Shirt Genre Shift Heroes Want Redheads Slasher Smile Sci-Fi Horror Catch-Phrase Our Vampires Are Different Heroic BSoD Race Lift Wounded Gazelle Gambit Humans Are Bastards Intergenerational Friendship