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