Tropescilloscope: Dwindling Party

Everyone sequentially dies as the story progresses. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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