Tropescilloscope: Storming the Castle

The assault on the Big Bad's home base. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Is a Crapshoot Badass Longcoat Same Language Dub Love Triangle The Musical Romantic False Lead Random Events Plot Product Placement Armor-Piercing Question Eiffel Tower Effect Sinister Minister Funny Foreigner Chekhov's Gunman Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Idiot Ball Break the Cutie Star-Crossed Lovers The Starscream Reasonable Authority Figure Crazy Jealous Guy Deadpan Snarker Advertised Extra Betty and Veronica Public Domain Feature Films The Load Drives Like Crazy Unreliable Narrator Punny Name Made of Explodium Faux Affably Evil War Is Hell Blood from the Mouth Heroic BSoD Sole Survivor Breaking the Fourth Wall The Quiet One Chase Scene Bullying a Dragon Fat Bastard Ambiguous Ending Aside Glance Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Card-Carrying Villain Papa Wolf Bait-and-Switch Evil Plan The Ghost Take That! Pimped-Out Dress It's All About Me The Reveal Punch-Clock Villain Good Is Not Nice The Cameo Ominous Latin Chanting One Steve Limit Screw the Rules, I Have Money! 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Fanservice Extra Throwing Your Sword Always Works Dramedy For Want of a Nail Artistic License – Biology It Can Think Curb-Stomp Battle Index of Film Westerns Coming-of-Age Story Dark Is Not Evil Brainless Beauty Annoying Younger Sibling Broken Aesop Soft Glass Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Humiliation Conga Kids Are Cruel Smug Snake Camera Abuse Cat Fight Groin Attack The Ditz Genre Savvy Spiritual Successor Dramatic Gun Cock Adapted Out Four-Temperament Ensemble Body Horror Token Minority Needs Wiki Magic Love Crapsack World Gender Flip Darker and Edgier Japanese Films Nothing Is Scarier Fanservice Actually Pretty Funny Married to the Job Unusually Uninteresting Sight Eagleland Twist Ending Offscreen Teleportation Shipper on Deck What You Are in the Dark Comically Missing the Point Hidden Depths And I Must Scream Aluminum Christmas Trees Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping The Cavalry Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Death by Irony Corpsing Not Using the "Z" Word Historical In-Joke Cold-Blooded Torture For the Evulz Adaptational Badass Retirony Eureka Moment Depraved Bisexual Determinator aka: The Determinator Antagonist Title Be Careful What You Wish For Badass Grandpa The '90s Cassandra Truth The Hero Would Hit a Girl Bare Your Midriff Kubrick Stare Dark and Troubled Past Naïve Newcomer Zombie Stories Tagline No OSHA Compliance Obfuscating Stupidity Failed a Spot Check He Who Fights Monsters Adult Fear Sexy Discretion Shot Awesome, but Impractical Anti-Hero Bound and Gagged Names to Run Away from Really Fast Ambiguous Disorder Gone Horribly Right Big Bad Duumvirate Stock Footage A Minor Kidroduction Did Not Get the Girl Even Evil Has Loved Ones Implacable Man Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Pragmatic Villainy Manic Pixie Dream Girl Big Brother Instinct Artistic License – Gun Safety Silence Is Golden Eyepatch of Power Abusive Parents Scary Black Man The Film of the Book Mugging the Monster Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Red Shirt Irony Sassy Black Woman Monumental Damage Adaptation Expansion Stuff Blowing Up Curse Cut Short Well-Intentioned Extremist Affectionate Parody Evil Sounds Deep Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds The Vamp Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Foreshadowing Cool Car Meaningful Background Event Ragtag Bunch of Misfits "Shaggy Dog" Story Bilingual Bonus Vitriolic Best Buds Fiery Redhead Gainax Ending Reality Ensues Adaptation Distillation Meet Cute Wham Line Laser-Guided Karma Sequel Escalation Shower Scene Badass in a Nice Suit Serial Killer Whole Plot Reference Those Wacky Nazis Yandere Enemy Mine Asshole Victim Hypocrite Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other The '80s Very Loosely Based on a True Story The Faceless And the Adventure Continues Genre Shift Bring My Brown Pants Author Appeal Dull Surprise Jerkass Has a Point Morality Pet Honor Before Reason Demonic Possession Unwitting Instigator of Doom Department of Redundancy Department Vomit Discretion Shot Back from the Dead Military and Warfare Films Scenery Porn Novelization Big Applesauce It Will Never Catch On Line-of-Sight Name Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Cain and Abel Big Fancy House Market-Based Title Kill It with Fire Demoted to Extra Fatal Flaw Babies Ever After Deliberately Monochrome Due to the Dead Guile Hero Only Known by Their Nickname Parental Substitute '80s Hair Artistic License – Law Small Name, Big Ego Straight Gay Police are Useless Dual Wielding I'm a Humanitarian Covers Always Lie Does This Remind You of Anything? Alliterative Name My God, What Have I Done? 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Would Hurt a Child No Name Given Red Oni, Blue Oni Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Match Cut Rousing Speech Catch-Phrase Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Ax-Crazy Big Eater Fate Worse than Death Undying Loyalty Badass Boast Face–Heel Turn Hero of Another Story Those Two Guys Corrupt Corporate Executive Broken Pedestal Damsel in Distress Dutch Angle Accidental Misnaming The X of Y Large Ham Wrong Genre Savvy Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Blood Knight Reality Has No Subtitles Book-Ends Gilligan Cut Malevolent Masked Men Bar Brawl Ascended Extra Jitter Cam Historical Villain Upgrade And Starring Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Crucified Hero Shot It's Personal The Chick The Smurfette Principle Psychological Thriller Freudian Excuse Male Frontal Nudity Double-Meaning Title Wounded Gazelle Gambit Ironic Echo The Dreaded Brutal Honesty Rule of Cool Rasputinian Death Exactly What It Says on the Tin Shirtless Scene Psychopathic Manchild Revenge Precision F-Strike Author Avatar Ghost Fiction Pragmatic Adaptation Mistaken for Gay Final Girl Faking the Dead Villain with Good Publicity Fire-Forged Friends Amoral Attorney Brick Joke Abhorrent Admirer Your Cheating Heart Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? 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