Tropescilloscope: Bury Your Gays

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

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And the Adventure Continues In Medias Res Broken Bird Age Lift Psychopathic Manchild Batman Gambit Screw the Rules, I Have Money! My Beloved Smother Disney Villain Death It's All About Me Parental Abandonment Manic Pixie Dream Girl Dirty Coward Action Girl Cowboy Cop My God, What Have I Done? Stealth Hi/Bye Gory Discretion Shot Self-Deprecation Defiant to the End Author Appeal '80s Hair Funny Background Event Does This Remind You of Anything? Bilingual Bonus Punny Name The Starscream MacGuffin Intergenerational Friendship Horror Comedy Shown Their Work Italian Films Black and Gray Morality German Films True Companions Artistic License – Geography She's Got Legs Take a Third Option Pimped-Out Dress Fat Bastard Adaptation Dye-Job Setting Update Narrator All Just a Dream Slasher Movie Abhorrent Admirer Knife Nut Guile Hero Be Careful What You Wish For The '80s Idiot Ball Brutal Honesty Pragmatic Adaptation Hong Kong Films Bond Villain Stupidity The Ace Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" All Men Are Perverts The Dreaded Depraved Bisexual Bittersweet Ending Even Evil Has Loved Ones Genre Savvy Eldritch Abomination Peek-a-Boo Corpse Japanese Films Pretty in Mink Drives Like Crazy Moment Killer Made of Iron Fatal Family Photo Thriller Slashed Throat Ship Tease Handicapped Badass Honor Before Reason Eye Scream Drowning My Sorrows Heterosexual Life-Partners Action Survivor Knight Templar Bloodier and Gorier Cloudcuckoolander Black Comedy Rape Informed Ability Superhero Armor-Piercing Question Author Avatar Skewed Priorities Anti-Villain Word of God O.O.C. Is Serious Business Epic Movie Abusive Parents Chekhov's Gunman Motor Mouth Aside Glance Up to Eleven Corrupt Corporate Executive Suspiciously Specific Denial Intrepid Reporter Evil Is Petty Madness Mantra Alliterative Name Really Gets Around Artistic License – Law Left the Background Music On The Dog Bites Back Ambiguous Disorder Protagonist Title Downer Ending Obviously Evil Unusually Uninteresting Sight There Is No Kill Like Overkill Half the Man He Used to Be Mr. Fanservice Science Fiction Films Fantasy Films Black Best Friend Stalker with a Crush No OSHA Compliance Artistic License – History Heel Realization Celebrity Paradox Mighty Whitey Precision F-Strike Animal Motifs From Nobody to Nightmare Jerkass Has a Point Bad Boss Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Storming the Castle Gainax Ending I Just Shot Marvin in the Face The '60s Badass in a Nice Suit Our Vampires Are Different Dark and Troubled Past Death of a Child Rule of Cool Shoot the Shaggy Dog Catch-Phrase Man on Fire Hero Antagonist Ax-Crazy No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Humiliation Conga Stock Footage Ripped from the Headlines The Great Depression Hollywood Law Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Overprotective Dad Woman in White Fatal Flaw Cat Scare Obstructive Bureaucrat The Oner Punctuated! 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They Really Do Love Each Other Parental Neglect Villain Ball Major Injury Underreaction Happily Married Homage Spiteful Spit Exactly What It Says on the Tin Kids Are Cruel Pay Evil unto Evil Pretty Little Headshots Genre Shift Race Against the Clock Hate Sink Anyone Can Die Took a Level in Badass Novelization Paper-Thin Disguise No Antagonist Bunny-Ears Lawyer Police Brutality Action Prologue The Lost Lenore The Ghost Everyone Has Standards Call-Forward Sacrificial Lion The Musical "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Action Genre Evil Sounds Deep Arch-Enemy Karmic Death Wham Line Dies Wide Open One-Word Title Overly Long Gag Married to the Job As the Good Book Says... Refuge in Audacity Dropped a Bridge on Him Hypocrite This Is Gonna Suck Yandere Brick Joke Advertised Extra Daylight Horror Male Frontal Nudity Not So Above It All Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! 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