Tropescilloscope: Artistic License – Military

Inaccuracies in military training, procedures, command structure, or practices are ignored in favor of telling the story. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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