Tropescilloscope: Combat Pragmatist

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