Tropescilloscope: Bury Your Gays

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

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More Tropes Double-Meaning Title Animal Title Index The Great Depression The Stoner Chewing the Scenery Heroes Want Redheads Mistaken for Gay Setting Update Dies Wide Open The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Same Language Dub '80s Hair Have a Gay Old Time Chase Scene Fantastic Racism Deus ex Machina Cool Shades Pre-Mortem One-Liner Sinister Minister Aluminum Christmas Trees Once More, with Clarity! Extremely Short Timespan Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Sequel Hook You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Half the Man He Used to Be Television Movie Index Handicapped Badass Freeze-Frame Bonus Obstructive Bureaucrat Karma Houdini Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Sports Stories Foreshadowing The '90s Berserk Button Roaring Rampage of Revenge Tempting Fate The Remake Non-Indicative Name Token Minority Neck Lift Happily Married Thriller Evil vs. Evil Fanservice Extra Drives Like Crazy Stuff Blowing Up Mood Whiplash Real Life Police Brutality Last-Name Basis Fatal Family Photo "Shaggy Dog" Story Aside Glance Black Comedy Rape The Faceless Horror Comedy Vampire Fiction Honor Before Reason Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Playing Gertrude Naked People Are Funny Kids Are Cruel Sacrificial Lion Beware the Nice Ones Foregone Conclusion Curb-Stomp Battle Hollywood Law Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Wicked Cultured Exactly What It Says on the Tin Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Improbable Weapon User Villain Protagonist Character Development Black Best Friend One Steve Limit Retirony Darker and Edgier Face Death with Dignity Manly Tears Guile Hero Based on a True Story Bar Brawl A Father to His Men Despair Event Horizon Reasonable Authority Figure The Atoner The Un-Reveal Not Even Bothering with the Accent Reality Has No Subtitles Spared by the Adaptation Faking the Dead Cassandra Truth Pet the Dog Outrun the Fireball Drill Sergeant Nasty Loads and Loads of Characters One-Man Army Creative Closing Credits Cat Fight Continuity Nod Big Bad Small Name, Big Ego Truth in Television I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Age Lift Damsel in Distress Celebrity Paradox Laser-Guided Karma Cluster F-Bomb An Aesop "The Reason You Suck" Speech Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Improbable Aiming Skills He Knows Too Much Not Quite Dead Adaptational Attractiveness Rule of Symbolism Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other La Résistance Cool Old Lady Death by Irony Defiant to the End Disguised in Drag Deliberate Values Dissonance Pragmatic Adaptation Face–Heel Turn Knife Nut Only Sane Man Military and Warfare Films Yandere The Mafia Hair-Trigger Temper A God Am I Ambiguous Disorder Running Gag Those Two Bad Guys Mad Scientist Needs Wiki Magic Love Historical Villain Upgrade Manic Pixie Dream Girl Not Using the "Z" Word Stepford Smiler Beard of Evil Boom, Headshot! Heroic Sacrifice Would Hit a Girl Morality Pet Slasher Movie Totally Radical Affectionate Parody Not So Stoic It Will Never Catch On Poor Communication Kills Determinator The Brute Credits Gag You Killed My Father Shut Up, Hannibal! Stylistic Suck Time Skip Funny Background Event Unusually Uninteresting Sight Evil Brit Disney Villain Death Index of Film Westerns Rated M for Manly Ripped from the Headlines Silence Is Golden Silent Movie Papa Wolf Ominous Latin Chanting Rasputinian Death It's All About Me Diabolus ex Machina Unwitting Instigator of Doom Madness Mantra Danny Peary Cult Movies List Vacation Films What You Are in the Dark Worthy Opponent Jitter Cam Woman in White Never My Fault Award-Bait Song For Want of a Nail Bottomless Magazines Red Shirt Redemption Equals Death Determinator aka: The Determinator The Reveal Sassy Black Woman World of Ham Evil-Detecting Dog A Minor Kidroduction Enemy Mine NO INDOOR VOICE The '60s Star-Crossed Lovers The Smurfette Principle Off-into-the-Distance Ending Crazy-Prepared Green-Eyed Monster Only in It for the Money Rule of Three Reality Ensues Betty and Veronica The Hero Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Mama Bear Skewed Priorities The Place Kill 'em All I'm a Humanitarian Adaptation Expansion Too Dumb to Live Really Gets Around Scare Chord Femme Fatale Re-Cut Getting Crap Past the Radar Early-Bird Cameo "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue The Dog Bites Back Artistic License – Military Dark Is Not Evil Fainting Adaptation Dye-Job An Axe to Grind The Casanova Big Bad Duumvirate Shirtless Scene Married to the Job Anti-Villain Blackmail There Is No Kill Like Overkill The Smart Guy Suspiciously Similar Substitute Your Head A-Splode Put on a Bus Science Fiction Films Obfuscating Stupidity The Film of the Book Breaking the Fourth Wall Fat Bastard Training Montage Mr. Exposition Room Full of Crazy Catch-Phrase Taking You with Me Protagonist Title Bland-Name Product The Stinger Light Is Not Good Not So Above It All The Starscream Male Frontal Nudity Instant Death Bullet Parental Neglect In Medias Res Broken Aesop Bunny-Ears Lawyer Ungrateful Bastard Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Mooks Overly Long Gag Australian Movies Composite Character Dirty Old Man Butt-Monkey Romantic False Lead folderlabel Bullying a Dragon Sealed Evil in a Can Large Ham Chiaroscuro Evil Is Petty An Arm and a Leg Agony of the Feet Scenery Gorn Fake Shemp Pay Evil unto Evil Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Show Within a Show Freudian Excuse Word of God Drowning My Sorrows Monumental Damage You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Storming the Castle Bolivian Army Ending Novelization Badass in a Nice Suit Smoking Is Cool Evil Cannot Comprehend Good The Sociopath Sadistic Choice The Cavalry Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Hero Antagonist Important Haircut Together in Death Bi the Way Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Rule of Cool It's Personal Central Theme Line-of-Sight Name Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor The Bully Big-Bad Ensemble Four-Temperament Ensemble Arc Words Fate Worse than Death All There in the Script Adaptational Villainy Earn Your Happy Ending Rape as Drama Early Installment Weirdness Leaning on the Fourth Wall Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Mighty Whitey Eldritch Abomination Faux Affably Evil Alas, Poor Villain Shout-Out Expy Bloodier and Gorier Villainous Breakdown Older Than They Look Children Are Innocent Mythology Gag Film Series Match Cut Twist Ending Smug Snake Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Real Life Writes the Plot Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Death by Adaptation Wrong Genre Savvy Red Herring Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Bad Boss I Did What I Had to Do Shipper on Deck Auto Erotica Visual Pun French Films Scenery Porn Nothing Is Scarier Be Careful What You Wish For Shower Scene Calling the Old Man Out Disney Death Punch-Clock Villain The Lost Lenore Self-Deprecation Product Placement BFG Shell-Shocked Veteran Gone Horribly Right "Well Done, Son!" Guy Random Events Plot Country Matters Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Artistic License – Law No Antagonist Awesome, but Impractical Combat Pragmatist The X of Y Pyrrhic Victory Cool Car Bavarian Fire Drill Deliberately Monochrome What the Hell, Hero? Apocalypse How And Starring Foil Empathic Environment The Ghost As the Good Book Says... Implacable Man Badass Boast Batman Gambit Psychopathic Manchild Cain and Abel Extreme Doormat Adaptational Heroism The Dreaded Film Noir Rich Bitch Whole Plot Reference Film Noir Index Anyone Can Die Red Oni, Blue Oni Ghost Fiction Dark Action Girl Retcon Eagleland Riddle for the Ages Serial Killer Animated Credits Opening Lampshade Hanging Imagine Spot Homage Spiritual Successor Dramatic Irony Stock Footage Downer Ending Decoy Protagonist Adaptation Distillation Action Genre Casting Gag Fan Disservice Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Facial Horror No Celebrities Were Harmed Dwindling Party Psycho for Hire Bound and Gagged Only One Name My Beloved Smother Karmic Death Captain Obvious Our Zombies Are Different Serious Business Tranquil Fury Parental Abandonment Never Trust a Trailer Accidental Misnaming He Who Fights Monsters Bond Villain Stupidity No-Holds-Barred Beatdown The '80s Hell Is That Noise Flashback The Alleged Car Brutal Honesty Authority Equals Asskicking Ambiguously Gay Precision F-Strike The Chessmaster Body Horror Music Stories Those Wacky Nazis No-Sell The Lancer Mr. Fanservice Immune to Bullets Spiteful Spit Anti-Hero Vomit Discretion Shot Fingore All Just a Dream Hypocritical Humor Parental Incest Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Noodle Incident Dying Moment of Awesome Bond One-Liner Demonic Possession Took a Level in Jerkass Genre Savvy Genre Shift Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Deconstruction Video Credits The End... Or Is It? Driven to Suicide Revenge Sexy Discretion Shot Christmas Movies Index Genre Throwback Evil Is Hammy What Happened to the Mouse? Bittersweet Ending Dual Wielding Camp Gay Lock and Load Montage Dark and Troubled Past Mind Screw Martial Arts Movie Ascended Extra Fanservice One-Word Title Spell My Name with an "S" How We Got Here Amoral Attorney Pragmatic Villainy Toplessness from the Back Armor-Piercing Question Recycled IN SPACE! Crucified Hero Shot Victoria's Secret Compartment German Films Canon Foreigner Framing Device Peek-a-Boo Corpse Take a Third Option In Name Only Not What It Looks Like Race Lift The Vamp Woman Scorned The Stoic Rewatch Bonus Chekhov's Skill Developing Doomed Characters Brick Joke Demoted to Extra Death by Sex Pimped-Out Dress Villain Song After the End Affably Evil Leitmotif The Dragon Artistic License – Biology Blood from the Mouth N-Word Privileges Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Rousing Speech Accidental Murder Would Hurt a Child Chekhov's Gun Author Avatar Stalker with a Crush The Ditz Malevolent Masked Men Spanner in the Works Take That! Meaningful Background Event Curse Cut Short 20 Minutes into the Future Hong Kong Films Friend to All Children Epic Movie Call-Forward Humans Are Bastards Unresolved Sexual Tension Interrupted Suicide Works Set in World War II Big Fancy House Bilingual Bonus Back from the Dead Destination Defenestration The Bad Guy Wins Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Blatant Lies Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Retired Badass Punny Name And the Adventure Continues Deal with the Devil Adults Are Useless Arranged Marriage Hidden Depths No Ending Mugging the Monster Book-Ends Never Found the Body Mystery and Detective Films Amusing Injuries Say My Name Chekhov's Gunman Intergenerational Friendship All Girls Want Bad Boys Canadian Movies The Alcoholic Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Broken Pedestal Sequel Escalation Advertised Extra Gainax Ending She's Got Legs Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Biopic Air-Vent Passageway Superhero Jump Scare Gratuitous English Psychological Thriller Dogged Nice Guy Historical In-Joke Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Bad "Bad Acting" True Companions Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Redshirt Army Greater-Scope Villain Creepy Child Vitriolic Best Buds All for Nothing Unspoken Plan Guarantee Gory Discretion Shot Heterosexual Life-Partners Plot Hole Ship Tease Leave the Camera Running Good Is Not Nice Grey and Gray Morality Covers Always Lie Unreliable Narrator Black Dude Dies First Anguished Declaration of Love Sci-Fi Horror She Cleans Up Nicely Abusive Parents Groin Attack Narrator Very Loosely Based on a True Story Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Guns Akimbo Romantic Comedy Sir Swears-a-Lot Every Car Is a Pinto Contrived Coincidence Due to the Dead Unusual Euphemism Villain Opening Scene The Oner Not So Different Well-Intentioned Extremist Make It Look Like an Accident Hate Sink Alliterative Name Reckless Gun Usage Artistic License – Geography Nice Hat From Nobody to Nightmare Plucky Comic Relief Vomit Indiscretion Shot Bare Your Midriff Becoming the Mask Lighter and Softer Killed Mid-Sentence Closed Circle Up to Eleven May–December Romance Even Evil Has Loved Ones The Big Guy Cloudcuckoolander Get Out! Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Male Gaze Jerkass Has a Point Pretty in Mink Crapsack World Bald of Evil Dirty Coward For the Evulz Dark Reprise Posthumous Character Bury Your Gays Exact Words Red Right Hand As Long as It Sounds Foreign Epic Fail Ambiguous Ending Cold-Blooded Torture Action Prologue Evil Plan And I Must Scream The Ace Knight Templar Eiffel Tower Effect Comically Missing the Point Black Comedy Does This Remind You of Anything? Heroic BSoD Red Eyes, Take Warning Almost Kiss Italian Films The Mole Fish out of Water Refuge in Audacity Here We Go Again! Hollywood Darkness Did Not Get the Girl Big Applesauce Final Girl Sanity Slippage Brother–Sister Incest I Have Your Wife All Men Are Perverts Babies Ever After Our Vampires Are Different Blood Knight Major Injury Underreaction Shown Their Work Left the Background Music On In the Back Hero of Another Story The Chick Stealth Hi/Bye Wretched Hive Cat Scare Gorn Badass Bookworm Evil Counterpart Corrupt Corporate Executive Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Laughing Mad British Films Idiot Ball Cool Old Guy Moment Killer Alpha Bitch Scary Black Man Coming-of-Age Story Pretty Little Headshots Famous Last Words Villain with Good Publicity Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Taking the Bullet Break the Haughty Jerkass Creator Cameo Card-Carrying Villain Defrosting Ice Queen This Is Gonna Suck Bring My Brown Pants Antagonist Title Offscreen Moment of Awesome Mundane Made Awesome timeperiod Asshole Victim Badass Normal Ms. Fanservice Abhorrent Admirer Slashed Throat Heel–Face Turn Documentary Gold Digger Rule of Funny The Cameo Undying Loyalty Evil Sounds Deep Manipulative Bastard Men Are the Expendable Gender Annoying Younger Sibling Establishing Character Moment No OSHA Compliance Death Glare Took a Level in Badass Nice Guy Bowdlerise Insult Backfire Domestic Abuse Dull Surprise Shoot the Shaggy Dog War Is Hell Race Against the Clock Public Domain Feature Films Henpecked Husband Expository Hairstyle Change Mexican Standoff Offscreen Teleportation Straight Gay Obviously Evil Beauty Is Never Tarnished Action Girl Properly Paranoid Title Drop The '50s Badass Longcoat Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Easily Forgiven Suspiciously Specific Denial Love Triangle Eyepatch of Power Manchild Parental Substitute Humiliation Conga Wham Shot Animal Motifs Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Hope Spot Wounded Gazelle Gambit Does Not Like Shoes As You Know Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Five-Man Band Dramatic Gun Cock Bloody Hilarious The Power of Love Love at First Sight Cowboy Cop Mercy Kill Eureka Moment Hoist by His Own Petard Failed a Spot Check Overprotective Dad Stealth Pun Reality Is Unrealistic Corpsing Eye Scream Adorkable Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Dropped a Bridge on Him Insane Troll Logic Dissonant Serenity Drugs Are Bad Man on Fire Tap on the Head Fatal Flaw Paper-Thin Disguise Super Strength Break the Cutie Didn't Think This Through Those Two Guys Captain Ersatz Historical Hero Upgrade B-Movie Evil Laugh Camera Abuse Sole Survivor Dumb Blonde Brainless Beauty Translation Convention No Name Given Meaningful Echo No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Intrepid Reporter Horror Films Fun with Acronyms Kick the Dog Fantasy Films Artistic License – Gun Safety My God, What Have I Done? Soft Glass Kubrick Stare Dirty Cop Even Evil Has Standards The Voiceless Gender Flip Politically Incorrect Villain Darkest Hour Fiery Redhead Double Entendre Flipping the Bird Dramedy Daylight Horror Attempted Rape Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Big Damn Heroes Adaptation Name Change Meaningful Name I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Logo Joke A Date with Rosie Palms Adaptational Badass Suddenly SHOUTING! Hooker with a Heart of Gold O.O.C. Is Serious Business Motor Mouth Cruel and Unusual Death Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Disproportionate Retribution Japanese Films Zombie Stories The Load Funny Foreigner Fourth Date Marriage Actor Allusion Loophole Abuse Heel Realization Tagline From Bad to Worse Off with His Head! Dressing as the Enemy Kick the Son of a Bitch Dutch Angle Beta Couple I Need a Freaking Drink The Musical Daddy's Girl Ass Shove Artistic License – History Maybe Ever After Insistent Terminology Action Survivor Neck Snap Jerk with a Heart of Gold Let's Get Dangerous! Everyone Has Standards Informed Ability Crazy Jealous Guy Badass Grandpa Conspicuous CG Artistic License – Physics Wham Line Death Seeker Department of Redundancy Department Belligerent Sexual Tension Big Eater Actually Pretty Funny It Can Think The Hero Dies Meet Cute Russian Films More Dakka Jerk Jock Car Fu Deadpan Snarker Grievous Bottley Harm Bloodless Carnage Call-Back Better to Die than Be Killed Made of Explodium Hypocrite Distracted by the Sexy Death of a Child Costume Porn Your Cheating Heart Improvised Weapon Broken Bird Ax-Crazy Only a Flesh Wound Slasher Smile Catapult Nightmare Slap-Slap-Kiss Only Known by Their Nickname Author Appeal Big "NO!" As Himself Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Arch-Enemy All There in the Manual Adult Fear Soundtrack Dissonance Oh, Crap! My Greatest Failure Trailers Always Spoil Depraved Bisexual Throwing Your Sword Always Works Naïve Newcomer Names to Run Away from Really Fast Police are Useless The Quiet One MacGuffin Black and Gray Morality Made of Iron Market-Based Title Bait-and-Switch Irony Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Kill It with Fire You Have Failed Me Villain Ball A.I. Is a Crapshoot Disappeared Dad Cool Guns Historical-Domain Character Ironic Echo Anachronic Order Fire-Forged Friends Missing Mom Big Brother Instinct Adapted Out Anachronism Stew Gilligan Cut The '70s "Awesome McCool" Name Frame-Up