Tropescilloscope: Curb-Stomp Battle

Defeating an opponent with barely any effort. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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