Tropescilloscope: Dwindling Party

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

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