A list of tropes about any acts of physical harm that are (deliberately) inflicted by one living being against another.
This is the inverse of Peace Tropes. This index is often (though not always) related to Death Tropes, which has quite a bit of overlap.
Categories:
General tropes of violence:
- Interplay of Sex and Violence
- Light Is Not Good
- Mohs Scale of Violence Hardness
- Red Is Violent
- Slap Stick
- Snuff Film
- Violence Detector
- Violence Is Disturbing
- Violence Is the Only Option
- Violence Really Is the Answer
Physical violence tropes:
- Armor-Piercing Slap
- "Be Quiet!" Nudge
- Big Ball of Violence
- Bitch Slap
- Boom, Headshot!
- Bloodier and Gorier
- Chunky Salsa Rule
- Dope Slap
- Double Standard: Violence, Child on Adult
- Family-Unfriendly Violence
- Food Slap
- Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!
- Glove Slap
- Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique
- Kill on Sight
- Let Me at Him!
- The Love Slap of Epiphany
- Ludicrous Gibs
- Men Use Violence, Women Use Communication
- Police Brutality
- Pre-Violence Laughter
- Rugby Is Slaughter
- Shoe Slap
- Tail Slap
Psychological violence tropes:
- Dead Guy on Display
- Finger in the Mail
- Forced to Watch
- Hannibal Lecture
- Insane Equals Violent
- I Will Punish Your Friend for Your Failure
- Make an Example of Them
- Public Execution
- Scare 'em Straight
- Severed Head Sports
Violent characters:
- Ax-Crazy
- The Baroness
- Blood Knight
- The Caligula
- Colonel Kilgore
- Combat Sadomasochist
- Crazy Survivalist
- Cute and Psycho
- Dark Action Girl
- Dragon Lady
- Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon
- Garbage Wrestler
- Hair-Trigger Temper
- Hostile Hitchhiker
- Jack the Ripoff
- Killer Rabbit
- Mad Bomber
- Monster Clown
- Omnicidal Maniac
- Psycho Electro
- Psycho for Hire
- Psychopathic Manchild
- Pyromaniac
- Sadist
- The Sociopath
- Torture Technician
- Sociopathic Soldier
- Uncanny Valley Girl
- Violently Protective Girlfriend
- Yandere
