Tropescilloscope: Dwindling Party

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

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