Tropescilloscope: BFG

A gun so huge that a single person shouldn't be able to heft it. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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