Combat Tropes

"''An' now the hugly bullets come peckin' through the dust,

''An' no one wants to face 'em, but every beggar must;

''So, like a man in irons, which isn't glad to go,

They moves 'em off by companies uncommon stiff an' slow."

- Rudyard Kipling

''All about combat, regardless of genre. See also War Tropes for war stories.''

Tropes
Categories:
 * Fight Scene
 * This Index Is Ready to Rumble
 * This Index Means Trouble
 * Injury Tropes
 * Skills and Training Tropes
 * Tropes in Shining Armor
 * Weapons and Wielding Tropes
 * Grenade Tropes
 * Guns and Gunplay Tropes
 * I Like Swords
 * Ranged Energy Attack Tropes
 * Absurd Cutting Power
 * Absurdly Sharp Blade
 * Sharpened to A Single Atom
 * Acrofatic
 * Action Bomb
 * Advantage Ball
 * Air Jousting
 * All Your Colors Combined
 * Alpha Strike
 * Annoying Arrows
 * Apologetic Attacker
 * Armored Coffins
 * Armor Is Useless
 * Attack Animal
 * Attack! Attack! Attack!
 * Attack! Attack! Retreat! Retreat!
 * Attack Pattern Alpha
 * Authority Equals Asskicking
 * Baby Boomers
 * Backup Bluff
 * Badass Army
 * Battle Aura
 * Battle Cry
 * Remember the Alamo!
 * Battle Strip
 * Battle Trophy
 * Beam-O-War
 * Beast of Battle
 * Beat the Curse Out of Him
 * Beehive Barrier
 * Berserker Tears
 * Bloody Murder
 * Blood Upgrade
 * Boarding Party
 * Bomb Whistle
 * Boobs of Steel
 * The Boxing Episode
 * Challenging the Chief
 * Chase Fight
 * Choke Holds
 * Combat Aestheticist
 * Combat By Champion
 * Combat Commentator
 * Combat Compliment
 * Combat Pragmatist
 * Combat Referee
 * Combat Sadomasochist
 * Combat Tentacles
 * Combat Uninterruptus
 * Coming in Hot
 * Cooking Duel
 * Counterpart Combat Coordination
 * Coup De Grace Cutscene
 * Crazy Prepared
 * Death of a Thousand Cuts
 * Defeat By Modesty
 * Defeat Means Friendship
 * I Fight for The Strongest Side
 * Defeating the Undefeatable
 * Deflector Shields
 * Deliberate Injury Gambit
 * Detachment Combat
 * Diagnosis From Dr. Badass
 * Diagonal Cut
 * Dodge By Braking
 * Do a Barrel Roll
 * Drama-Preserving Handicap
 * Drunken Boxing
 * Duels Decide Everything
 * Duel to The Death
 * Eat Me
 * Edible Bludgeon
 * Baguette Beatdown
 * Elite Army
 * Equippable Ally
 * Evolving Weapon
 * Extreme Melee Revenge
 * Extremity Extremist
 * Face Palm of Doom
 * Fantastic Fighting Style
 * Fast Roping
 * The Fighting Narcissist
 * Finish Him!
 * Finishing Move
 * Fire-Forged Friends
 * Fist of Rage
 * Fixed-Floor Fighting
 * Flash Step
 * Flexible Tourney Rules
 * Flying Weapon
 * Free-Floor Fighting
 * Friend or Foe
 * Full-Contact Magic
 * Fumbling the Gauntlet
 * Geo Effects
 * Get It Over With
 * Gladiator Games
 * The Gloves Come Off
 * Helicopter Blender
 * Heroes Fight Barehanded
 * Heroic RROD
 * Heroic Willpower
 * "Hey You!" Haymaker
 * High Altitude Battle
 * Highly-Conspicuous Uniform
 * High-Speed Missile Dodge
 * Hiss Before Fleeing
 * Hit and Run Tactics
 * Holy Hand Grenade
 * Home Run Hitter
 * How Much More Can He Take?
 * Humongous Mecha
 * I Am Not Left-Handed
 * I Can Still Fight
 * Idiosyncratic Combo Levels
 * I Got You Covered
 * I Know Madden Kombat
 * Impaled With Extreme Prejudice
 * Improv Fu
 * In the Back
 * Intimidation Demonstration
 * Intrinsic Vow
 * Involuntary Battle to The Death
 * Invulnerable Knuckles
 * In Working Order
 * Just Toying With Them
 * Kevlard
 * Kill It Through Its Stomach
 * Knight, Knave, and Squire
 * Kinetic Weapons Are Just Better
 * Knockout Ambush
 * Kung Fu Clairvoyance
 * Launcher Move
 * Last Starfighter
 * Let's Mock the Monsters
 * Literal Strawman
 * Living Weapon
 * Weaponized Animal
 * Locked Out of the Fight
 * Long-Range Fighter
 * Man Bites Man
 * The Man Makes the Weapon
 * Martial Arts and Crafts
 * Martial Medic
 * Megaton Punch
 * Metronomic Man-Mashing
 * Missile Lock On
 * Mook Horror Show
 * Mutual Disadvantage
 * My Defense Need Not Protect Me Forever
 * Neck Snap
 * Night Vision Goggles
 * Ninja Log
 * No-Holds-Barred Beatdown
 * No-Holds-Barred Contest
 * No, I Am Behind You
 * No Sell
 * Normal Fish in A Tiny Pond
 * Non-Lethal Warfare
 * Now That's Using Your Teeth
 * One-Hit Kill
 * One-Hit Polykill
 * Opponent Switch
 * Opposing Combat Philosophies
 * Orgasmic Combat
 * Our Weapons Will Be Boxy in The Future
 * Out of the Inferno
 * Infernal Retaliation
 * Painfully-Slow Projectile
 * Palate Propping
 * The Paralyzer
 * Pink Mist
 * Pinned Down
 * Poison Is Evil
 * Pre-Asskicking Mutter
 * Pressure Point
 * Pro Wrestling Episode
 * Put Their Heads Together
 * Pummel Duel
 * Punch Catch
 * Punch Parry
 * Recovery Attack
 * Red Shirt
 * Refrigerator Ambush
 * Roar Before Beating
 * Rollerblade Good
 * Roundhouse Kick
 * Run or Die
 * Screaming Warrior
 * Sealed Army in A Can
 * Second-Hour Superpower
 * Self-Offense
 * Sex Is Violence
 * Shadow Pin
 * Sheathe Your Sword
 * Shield-Bash
 * Shoot Everything That Moves
 * Shot in The Ass
 * Siege Engines
 * Battering Ram
 * Single-Stroke Battle
 * Slipknot Ponytail
 * The Slow Walk
 * Smoke Shield
 * Sniper Duel
 * Sniping the Cockpit
 * Snowball Fight
 * Socketed Equipment
 * Special Attack
 * Attack Reflector
 * Death in All Directions
 * Beam Spam
 * Field of Blades
 * Storm of Blades
 * Spam Attack
 * Ki Attacks
 * Energy Ball
 * Kamehame Hadouken
 * Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs
 * Shoryuken
 * Spin Attack
 * Hurricane Kick
 * Rolling Attack
 * Speed Blitz
 * Spell Blade
 * Spinning Piledriver
 * Standard Starship Scuffle
 * Storm of Blades
 * Strength Equals Worthiness
 * Super-Persistent Missile
 * Superweapon Surprise
 * Sword Drag
 * Sword Sparks
 * Tech Fu
 * Teeth Flying
 * Tell Me How You Fight
 * The Magic Touch
 * There Is No Kill Like Overkill
 * The Thunderdome
 * Trap Master
 * Trench Coat Warfare
 * Trial By Combat
 * Trying to Catch Me Fighting Dirty
 * Talk to The Fist
 * Unblockable Attack
 * Unholy Nuke
 * Unskilled but Strong
 * Vehicular Assault
 * Victory By Endurance
 * War God
 * Water Tower Down
 * Warrior Therapist
 * Weak but Skilled
 * Weapon As Familiar
 * Weaponized Exhaust
 * Who Needs Their Whole Body?
 * With Catlike Tread
 * With My Hands Tied
 * The Worf Barrage
 * You Are Already Dead
 * You Get Knocked Down, You Get Back Up Again
 * "You?" Squared
 * Zorro Mark