Tropescilloscope: Knife Nut

A character who uses knives as a scary and badass Weapon of Choice. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Is Serious Business Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas One-Word Title Product Placement Science Fiction Films Improbable Weapon User German Films Based on a True Story Names to Run Away from Really Fast Abhorrent Admirer Woman in White Fake Shemp Serious Business Scenery Gorn Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Canon Foreigner Black Dude Dies First Reality Is Unrealistic My Beloved Smother Not What It Looks Like Bowdlerise Anyone Can Die Sequel Hook Adaptation Distillation Corrupt Corporate Executive I'm a Humanitarian Wounded Gazelle Gambit Pretty in Mink Dwindling Party Bitch in Sheep's Clothing NO INDOOR VOICE Scary Black Man The Big Guy Death of a Child Actor Allusion Did Not Get the Girl Authority Equals Asskicking Overprotective Dad Market-Based Title All There in the Manual Television Movie Index Bar Brawl Evil-Detecting Dog Works Set in World War II Auto Erotica Sealed Evil in a Can Rule of Funny An Aesop The End... Or Is It? Advertised Extra Shout-Out Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Cloudcuckoolander "Well Done, Son!" Guy Happily Married Informed Ability Amoral Attorney Artistic License – Military Flashback Vampire Fiction Protagonist Title Establishing Character Moment Only in It for the Money Visual Pun Cassandra Truth Dark Reprise Air-Vent Passageway Arranged Marriage Bi the Way Hong Kong Films Disney Death The '50s Offscreen Teleportation Historical In-Joke Body Horror Noodle Incident Manipulative Bastard Bunny-Ears Lawyer The Great Depression Henpecked Husband Big Applesauce Real Life Writes the Plot Eagleland Lampshade Hanging He Knows Too Much Off with His Head! 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Is a Crapshoot Running Gag Soft Glass Taking You with Me Beta Couple Coming-of-Age Story Early Installment Weirdness It Will Never Catch On In Medias Res Book-Ends Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Defrosting Ice Queen Femme Fatale Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Babies Ever After Dull Surprise Expy The Un-Reveal Evil vs. Evil The Oner Wham Line Ominous Latin Chanting Broken Pedestal Deliberate Values Dissonance Call-Forward Undying Loyalty Took a Level in Badass Evil Sounds Deep All Girls Want Bad Boys Refuge in Audacity Trailers Always Spoil Unusually Uninteresting Sight Villainous Breakdown Even Evil Has Standards Plot Hole Military and Warfare Films Heel–Face Turn Riddle for the Ages Race Against the Clock Woman Scorned Ungrateful Bastard Sadistic Choice Grey and Gray Morality Dissonant Serenity Hope Spot Big Bad Vomit Discretion Shot Cool Old Guy Not So Above It All No Ending The Vamp Reality Has No Subtitles Red Right Hand Truth in Television Implacable Man Adult Fear Cool Shades Attempted Rape Facial Horror What You Are in the Dark Romantic False Lead Guns Akimbo La Résistance Made of Explodium Becoming the Mask Sequel Escalation Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Pimped-Out Dress My God, What Have I Done? Beauty Is Never Tarnished Demoted to Extra Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Loophole Abuse The Casanova Berserk Button Badass in a Nice Suit Badass Longcoat Defiant to the End Deliberately Monochrome Freudian Excuse Funny Background Event Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Paper-Thin Disguise The Stoic Final Girl Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Morality Pet Cruel and Unusual Death Shipper on Deck Made of Iron Peek-a-Boo Corpse Blood from the Mouth World of Ham Sassy Black Woman Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Foil Shirtless Scene Curb-Stomp Battle The Film of the Book Greater-Scope Villain No-Sell BFG The Chessmaster Action Prologue Put on a Bus Jitter Cam Villain Opening Scene Overly Long Gag folderlabel Adaptation Expansion Meaningful Background Event Chekhov's Gun Biopic Dirty Cop Deconstruction Narrator Mythology Gag Artistic License – Physics Hypocritical Humor Bloodless Carnage timeperiod Hero Antagonist Real Life Insult Backfire 20 Minutes into the Future Better to Die than Be Killed Disney Villain Death Mercy Kill Kids Are Cruel Mind Screw Flipping the Bird A Father to His Men Bond One-Liner Australian Movies Determinator aka: The Determinator Precision F-Strike Pre-Mortem One-Liner Immune to Bullets Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Our Vampires Are Different Pragmatic Villainy Big Bad Duumvirate Department of Redundancy Department Pretty Little Headshots Daylight Horror Covers Always Lie True Companions Badass Grandpa Here We Go Again! Martial Arts Movie Blatant Lies The Ace Expository Hairstyle Change Leave the Camera Running Scare Chord Big Fancy House Stepford Smiler Would Hit a Girl Only a Flesh Wound Say My Name Adaptational Heroism Be Careful What You Wish For Darker and Edgier Not So Stoic For the Evulz All There in the Script