The A-Team

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Some directors seem to think that all forms of explosives make giant balls of fire, making no distinction between high explosives and incendiaries.

The bad guy tries to hit B.A. while scaling a building. Misses every time.

In the never ending battle between good and evil the bad guys are all taking fashion cues from Goth kids in the Midwest. At least it can't clash with anything.

The CIA is effectively the mafia, stealing money, extorting buisinesses, and murdering people to keep everything quiet.

The head of the military operation is so, sometimes mistakenly, confident in his plans that he will take time to light a cigar or have a drink while surveying the mayhem.

Cool guys keep on walking when something explodes behind them.

The villain always has a "Foolproof plan", yet it always seems to be stopped by hero no matter how bumbling he is.

The hero is framed for a crime he didn't commit, and now must escape the police and the villain...all while trying to prove his innocence.

The A-Team is framed and sent to prison. They soon break out.

No matter how many enemies he faces, no matter how many bullets are sprayed at him, the hero in this simply cannot be hit by bullets. There may be a token flesh wound at the end of the film, however.

In which soldiers, police officers, or someone in another kind of strict hierarchical organization is given explicit orders from a superior, only to ignore, disobey, or explicitly rebel against those orders because they believe that following them would be wrong.

Nowadays, smoking in films is usually reserved for the rebels, brooders, or villainous.

BA still ain't getting on no goddamn plane.

Primarily in spy movies, when one character tries to infiltrate a group, club, gang, ect as a foreign specialist and another character speaks to them in their "native" language to see if they are the real deal.

Often seen in PG-13 rated movies where a character is going to swear but a sound effect or another person's voice interrupts or blocks the rest of the swear word.

This skit is older than dirt and still finds its way into movies.

Cool guys have muscles and they just love to show them off. The only way to do that is to take off their shirts and flex. These are the films that help them do that.

When a hero is defeated, defenseless and completely at the will of their nemesis the bad guy has a terrible habit of finding their gift for gab right then and there, revealing the entire nefarious scheme and usually allowing the protagonist to rally or notice a convenient trap door.

Sharlto Copley's H.M. "Howling Mad" Murdoc

B.A. Baracus doesn't need more people, fool!

Typical spoken when you mix two forms of law enforcement in one movie!

Blames ridiculous occurances on the US Government. Specific to the US Government.

Our manly protagonist mows down waves upon waves of nameless, worthless henchmen. Somehow the henchmen fire a zillion bullets at our protagonist, but their aim is either that bad or the action hero is that unstoppable that rarely does the hero get struck. Also known as "Stormtrooper Syndrome."