Tropescilloscope: Martial Arts Movie

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