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.
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
Tropes
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- Idiosyncratic Combo Levels
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- In Working Order
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- Let's Mock the Monsters
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- My Defense Need Not Protect Me Forever
- Neck Snap
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- 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
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- The Only One
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- Opponent Switch
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- Orgasmic Combat
- Out of the Inferno
- Painfully Slow Projectile
- Palate Propping
- The Paralyzer
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- Pink Mist
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- Poison Is Evil
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- Pro Wrestling Episode
- Pull Yourself Down the Spear
- Put Their Heads Together
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- Roar Before Beating
- Rollerblade Good
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- Second Hour Superpower
- See the Whites of Their Eyes
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- Sex Is Violence
- Shadow Pin
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- Shoot Everything That Moves
- Short-Range Guy, Long-Range Guy
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- The Slow Walk
- Smoke Shield
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- Superweapon Surprise
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- Take Cover
- Teeth Flying
- Tell Me How You Fight
- The Magic Touch
- There Is No Kill Like Overkill
- The Thunderdome
- The Tourney: More or less seriously depending on treatment.
- Throw The Mook At Them
- Trap Master
- Trial by Combat
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- *Twang* Hello
- Unblockable Attack
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- Water Tower Down
- Warrior Therapist
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- Weaponized Offspring
- Weighted Gloves
- Wet Means Defeated
- Who Needs Their Whole Body?
- With Catlike Tread
- With My Hands Tied
- The Worf Barrage
- World's Best Warrior
- You Are Already Dead
- You Get Knocked Down, You Get Back Up Again
- "You!" Squared
- Zorro Mark
