Tropescilloscope: Dwindling Party

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

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