Tropescilloscope: Dwindling Party

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

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