Tropescilloscope: Bury Your Gays

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

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