Tropescilloscope: Bury Your Gays

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

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Is a Crapshoot Training Montage Shower Scene Deliberately Monochrome Eiffel Tower Effect Victoria's Secret Compartment Every Car Is a Pinto Brick Joke Room Full of Crazy Those Two Guys The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite An Aesop Would Hit a Girl Evil Sounds Deep Parental Abandonment Not Even Bothering with the Accent Captain Ersatz Early-Bird Cameo Fate Worse than Death Imagine Spot Genre Throwback Heel Realization Film Noir Happily Married Film Series Dressing as the Enemy Artistic License – History And Starring Hong Kong Films Handicapped Badass Skewed Priorities Decoy Protagonist Totally Radical Dropped a Bridge on Him Male Gaze Revenge Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Badass Longcoat Parental Neglect Beware the Nice Ones Neck Snap Animal Title Index Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Badass Normal Bottomless Magazines Lighter and Softer Crucified Hero Shot Knife Nut Mythology Gag Idiot Ball Evil Brit Action Girl Hooker with a Heart of Gold Face Death with Dignity Determinator aka: The Determinator Auto Erotica Big Bad Fish out of Water Pretty in Mink Kubrick Stare Heroes Want Redheads Novelization Epic Movie Properly Paranoid Villain Ball Only Known by Their Nickname Disproportionate Retribution It Can Think Grievous Bottley Harm Adaptational Attractiveness Mr. Fanservice Yandere Italian Films Rich Bitch Funny Background Event Retcon Deal with the Devil Mooks All There in the Script Sexy Discretion Shot Our Vampires Are Different Celebrity Paradox Unusual Euphemism Adaptation Distillation Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Plot Hole Rewatch Bonus Mr. Exposition Almost Kiss Star-Crossed Lovers Psychopathic Manchild Eyepatch of Power Anyone Can Die Shut Up, Hannibal! 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