Tropescilloscope: Bury Your Gays

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

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