# Does the Tropes site have a page for this? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 14, 2011, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-tropes-site-have-a-page-for-this/589070 "2011-07-14T23:09:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2011, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-tropes-site-have-a-page-for-this/589070/41 "2011-07-23T19:37:01Z")
I am reminded of the 90’s Batman cartoon, I think it was ‘I almost had him’ where the various Batman villains lament and tell tales of how they almost killed Batman once. Turns out one of them was Batman in disguise trying to get critical info. When he reveals this they all pull out guns, but then every patron in the bar pulls out a gun pointing at the villains - they were all Gotham’s police force. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2011, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-tropes-site-have-a-page-for-this/589070/42 "2011-07-23T23:24:40Z")
Err… were we/was I supposed to nominate this concept on the YKTTW page first, and let people vote to launch it, rather than just going ahead and adding it? :o ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2011, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-tropes-site-have-a-page-for-this/589070/43 "2011-09-19T18:23:05Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > Err… were we/was I supposed to nominate this concept on the YKTTW page first, and let people vote to launch it, rather than just going ahead and adding it? :o Yeah, but it’s still there so they must have liked it. I did the same thing; [one is still there](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GungHolierThanThou) but the other was disappeared rather quickly. ---
**Author:** ![Interconnected\_Series\_of\_Tubes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/13edae/32.png) [@Interconnected\_Series\_of\_Tubes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Interconnected_Series_of_Tubes)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2011, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-tropes-site-have-a-page-for-this/589070/44 "2011-09-19T20:52:53Z")
“Everyone is Armed” is so boring. My vote is for “And Then There Were Guns” ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2011, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-tropes-site-have-a-page-for-this/589070/45 "2011-09-23T01:18:17Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > Yeah, but it’s still there so they must have liked it. And new features are getting added to it, so I guess it indeed is liked. Thanks again everyone, I couldn’t have done it without you! ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2011, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-tropes-site-have-a-page-for-this/589070/46 "2011-09-23T09:16:47Z")
[Does this count](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upvZdVK913I) (starting at about 2.15)? ---
**Author:** ![Bakhesh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Bakhesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bakhesh)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2011, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-tropes-site-have-a-page-for-this/589070/47 "2011-09-23T11:25:43Z")
I seem to remember this exact scene happening in Robocop 3 (although I’ve not seen it in many years, and am in no rush to go back and check). I think someone tries to hold up a cop diner, and is suddenly covered in laser spots. Ring any bells with anyone? ---
**Author:** ![tanstaafl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba8739/32.png) [@tanstaafl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanstaafl)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2011, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-tropes-site-have-a-page-for-this/589070/48 "2011-09-23T12:40:25Z")
There’s a scene in _The President’s Analyst_ where Dr. Schaefer (James Coburn) is out for dinner with his girlfriend and tells her that he thinks that he is being followed by spies everywhere and worries that he is becoming paranoid. He suddenly announces that he is going to find out, jumps up, yells “I’ve been shot!” and falls to the floor. A few seconds later he looks up to see that everyone in the restaurant has pulled a gun and pointed it at someone else (including his girlfriend), at which point he yells “Ah ha! I’m _not_ going paranoid!” (It then turns out to be a dream, but still a funny scene.) ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2011, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-tropes-site-have-a-page-for-this/589070/49 "2011-09-23T16:41:14Z")
> [@Max\_Torque](#): > > Doesn’t this happen pretty famously in **Raiders of the Lost Ark**? Indy is in the restaurant in Cairo, talking to Belloq. Indy pulls his gun, and suddenly everyone else in the place pulls a gun and points it at Indy. Indy makes his escape when a bunch of children rush in and surround him, easing him toward the door. I don’t remember it being everybody in the restaurant; rather, it was everybody in Belloq’s party, which was rather to be expected. And I also think that Jones knew they’d all be armed; he just didn’t care. He thought he’d just gotten Marian killed, remember? He walked into that place to die. ETA: And of course, it also happens in the first part of the “Who Shot Mr. Burns?” storyline on _The Simpsons_, when every adult in town but Marge and possibly the Mayor is packing heat at the town meeting. It’s why Marge disbelieves that they’ll ever find the shooter; everyone has a motive. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2011, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-tropes-site-have-a-page-for-this/589070/50 "2011-09-24T01:08:43Z")
> [@Bakhesh](#): > > I seem to remember this exact scene happening in Robocop 3 (although I’ve not seen it in many years, and am in no rush to go back and check). I think someone tries to hold up a cop diner, and is suddenly covered in laser spots. Ring any bells with anyone? A doughnut shop, and there’s a link to a Youtube clip of it on the page. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-tropes-site-have-a-page-for-this/589070/51 "2012-10-11T02:08:53Z")
Just wanted to thank everyone again for their suggestions and their help starting the page. I still visit it from time to time and people continue to add suggestions to it so it’s evidently considered worthy. > **[Everyone Is Armed - TV Tropes](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EveryoneIsArmed)** > > A crowd of people (patrons in a bar, customers in line at the bank, worshipers in church, etc.), are all armed to the teeth, down to the old lady with a walker, the nun, and the clown with the balloons. Like Everybody Was Kung-Fu Fighting, only … ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2014, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-tropes-site-have-a-page-for-this/589070/52 "2014-06-28T02:16:03Z")
“Everyone Is Armed” trope page going strong, with new entries still being added. I would like to solicit an image to be added to the page: something like the following, although that one isn’t ideal: [![](https://www.imfdb.org/images/8/8d/15-4.jpg) ](https://www.imfdb.org/images/8/8d/15-4.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2014, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-tropes-site-have-a-page-for-this/589070/53 "2014-06-28T07:17:04Z")
I heard a “dumb criminal” story once where they decided to rob a bank. On a lunch hour. Opposite the police house. On payday. They got as far as saying “This is a stic-” before the rest of the sentence was drowned in the thunderous noise of slides being racked. ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2014, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-tropes-site-have-a-page-for-this/589070/54 "2014-06-28T14:23:49Z")
I think the cliche is someone tries to stick up a bar, but it turns out the bar is the local “cop bar”. Then there’s the Discworld “Watch” series. In one, Lance Constable Carrot breaks up a fight in a dwarf bar using his charisma and, not exactly the same thing, but in a later novel in the “Watch” series, 2 miscreants take Angua as a hostage. Vimes said something about attempted suicide. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2014, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-tropes-site-have-a-page-for-this/589070/55 "2014-06-28T14:36:51Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > “Everyone Is Armed” trope page going strong, with new entries still being added. I would like to solicit an image to be added to the page: something like the following, although that one isn’t ideal: > [http://www.imfdb.org/images/8/8d/15-4.jpg](http://www.imfdb.org/images/8/8d/15-4.jpg) How about these? [![](http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/tTNJUjsNKVk/maxresdefault.jpg) ](http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/tTNJUjsNKVk/maxresdefault.jpg) [![](https://stanfordclark.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/mel-brooks-blazing-saddles.jpg) ](https://stanfordclark.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/mel-brooks-blazing-saddles.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2014, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-tropes-site-have-a-page-for-this/589070/56 "2014-06-28T17:13:49Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > How about these? > > [http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/tTNJUjsNKVk/maxresdefault.jpg](http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/tTNJUjsNKVk/maxresdefault.jpg) > [http://stanfordclark.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/mel-brooks-blazing-saddles.jpg](http://stanfordclark.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/mel-brooks-blazing-saddles.jpg) It’s hard to get a good picture that fits within the limits that Tropes can accept (250x350 pixels) and conveys well that there’s a crowd and they’re _all_ armed. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2014, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-tropes-site-have-a-page-for-this/589070/57 "2014-06-28T18:27:42Z")
Would _Star Wars_ count? It seems everyone has some kind of weapon there. (Usually a blaster) ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2014, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-tropes-site-have-a-page-for-this/589070/58 "2014-06-28T20:13:07Z")
Correction: the image can be any height, but a maximum width of 350 pixels. Tropes has it’s own image suggestion forum- > **[Image Pickin' / Administrivia - TV Tropes](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Administrivia/ImagePickin?from=Main.ImagePickin)** > > The Image Pickin' forum is the section of the TV Tropes Forum where Tropers go to discuss page images. If a page has an image that doesn't work for some reason (Just a Face and a Caption, poor image quality, can't be used because of copyright … -but I haven’t quite figured out how it’s organized. The ideal picture should feature a heterogeneous group (not all cowboys in a saloon for instance), and should look like a random crowd, not people who know each other and are purposely gathered. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2017, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-tropes-site-have-a-page-for-this/589070/59 "2017-03-01T03:50:25Z")
Recently thought to check back there and there’s a LOT of new stuff, so evidently this was indeed a worthy trope! Thanks again to all contributors. > **[Everyone Is Armed - TV Tropes](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EveryoneIsArmed)** > > A crowd of people (patrons in a bar, customers in line at the bank, worshipers in church, etc.), are all armed to the teeth, down to the old lady with a walker, the nun, and the clown with the balloons. Like Everybody Was Kung-Fu Fighting, only … ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2017, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-tropes-site-have-a-page-for-this/589070/60 "2017-03-01T16:06:24Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > “Everyone Is Armed” trope page going strong, with new entries still being added. I would like to solicit an image to be added to the page: something like the following, although that one isn’t ideal: > [http://www.imfdb.org/images/8/8d/15-4.jpg](http://www.imfdb.org/images/8/8d/15-4.jpg) [http://www.rhjunior.com/the-fellowship-of-heroes-0046/](http://www.rhjunior.com/the-fellowship-of-heroes-0046/) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-tropes-site-have-a-page-for-this/589070.md?page=2)