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