Tropescilloscope: Bury Your Gays

Gay characters are killed off disproportionately often. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Not So Different Ripped from the Headlines Determinator Heel Realization Jump Scare Suspiciously Specific Denial Nice Hat Adorkable Berserk Button Real Life Captain Ersatz Protagonist Title Love Triangle Adaptation Expansion Gone Horribly Right Didn't Think This Through Gory Discretion Shot Dark Reprise Eldritch Abomination Enemy Mine Alpha Bitch Early-Bird Cameo Bloody Hilarious Brick Joke No OSHA Compliance Fantasy Films Trailers Always Spoil Peek-a-Boo Corpse Bad Boss Mercy Kill Undying Loyalty Armor-Piercing Question Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy The Ghost Not Quite Dead Ambiguously Gay Yandere The Bad Guy Wins Getting Crap Past the Radar Noodle Incident I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Lampshade Hanging Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Knife Nut Never Trust a Trailer Car Fu "Shaggy Dog" Story Humiliation Conga Brutal Honesty He Knows Too Much Hoist by His Own Petard Faking the Dead Becoming the Mask Serious Business Ascended Extra Big-Bad Ensemble Race Against the Clock One-Word Title A God Am I "Well Done, Son!" Guy Rated M for Manly Evil Is Petty Dressing as the Enemy Badass Grandpa What Happened to the Mouse? Dark and Troubled Past Narrator Public Domain Feature Films No Celebrities Were Harmed Covers Always Lie Well-Intentioned Extremist Call-Back Damsel in Distress Evil-Detecting Dog Almost Kiss War Is Hell Vampire Fiction Does Not Like Shoes Genre Shift Kids Are Cruel N-Word Privileges Important Haircut Those Wacky Nazis Meaningful Echo Black Best Friend Jerk with a Heart of Gold Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Crazy-Prepared Pimped-Out Dress Flipping the Bird Defrosting Ice Queen Artistic License – Biology Body Horror Bury Your Gays You Have Failed Me Recycled IN SPACE! There Is No Kill Like Overkill No Ending Broken Aesop Country Matters Epic Fail Woman Scorned Cat Fight Empathic Environment Taking You with Me Cassandra Truth Jerkass 20 Minutes into the Future Red Eyes, Take Warning The '90s Did Not Get the Girl Decoy Protagonist An Aesop Japanese Films The Alleged Car Defiant to the End Motor Mouth Title Drop Cluster F-Bomb I Did What I Had to Do Disappeared Dad Double Entendre Product Placement Insistent Terminology Offscreen Teleportation Police are Useless A Date with Rosie Palms Pay Evil unto Evil Villain with Good Publicity Green-Eyed Monster Not So Above It All Sports Stories Darker and Edgier Stalker with a Crush An Axe to Grind Taking the Bullet Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Vacation Films Let's Get Dangerous! Even Evil Has Loved Ones Grey and Gray Morality Captain Obvious Butt-Monkey One-Man Army Alas, Poor Villain Loads and Loads of Characters Extreme Doormat Not What It Looks Like Man on Fire Paper-Thin Disguise Really Gets Around Male Gaze Chekhov's Gunman Fish out of Water Irony Fourth Date Marriage Leaning on the Fourth Wall The '70s The Casanova Ass Shove Developing Doomed Characters Sealed Evil in a Can Spanner in the Works folderlabel Department of Redundancy Department Badass Longcoat Curb-Stomp Battle Mighty Whitey Token Minority NO INDOOR VOICE Belligerent Sexual Tension Hollywood Law Flashback Kill 'em All Take a Third Option Creative Closing Credits No Antagonist Better to Die than Be Killed Killed Mid-Sentence Fantastic Racism Deal with the Devil Big Bad Duumvirate Australian Movies Would Hit a Girl Casting Gag O.O.C. Is Serious Business Pretty in Mink Big Brother Instinct Unusual Euphemism Bald of Evil How We Got Here Villain Protagonist Call-Forward All Just a Dream Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Bloodier and Gorier Truth in Television She Cleans Up Nicely Film Noir Index Kill It with Fire Sadistic Choice Bait-and-Switch The Voiceless Bloodless Carnage Jerkass Has a Point He Who Fights Monsters Needs Wiki Magic Love Never Found the Body Bottomless Magazines Pyrrhic Victory Actually Pretty Funny Contrived Coincidence Improbable Weapon User Celebrity Paradox I Need a Freaking Drink No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism The Stoner Malevolent Masked Men Dying Moment of Awesome Bavarian Fire Drill Nice Guy Daddy's Girl Real Life Writes the Plot Evil Laugh Heterosexual Life-Partners Adaptational Heroism Insult Backfire Video Credits Stylistic Suck Dull Surprise Redemption Equals Death Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? 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The Place Hate Sink Parental Neglect Military and Warfare Films Monumental Damage The Ditz Card-Carrying Villain Author Avatar Adaptational Villainy Tempting Fate For Want of a Nail Famous Last Words The Big Guy Ungrateful Bastard Naïve Newcomer Disproportionate Retribution The Brute Mood Whiplash Unresolved Sexual Tension Composite Character Posthumous Character Skewed Priorities Rule of Three Slap-Slap-Kiss Shirtless Scene Canadian Movies Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Advertised Extra Pragmatic Adaptation Slasher Smile The '50s Make It Look Like an Accident Artistic License – Gun Safety Show Within a Show Breaking the Fourth Wall Batman Gambit Red Oni, Blue Oni Curse Cut Short Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Bond One-Liner Instant Death Bullet Foregone Conclusion One Steve Limit Faux Affably Evil Would Hurt a Child Fat Bastard Once More, with Clarity! Historical In-Joke Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Kick the Dog Suddenly SHOUTING! 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