Tropescilloscope: Dwindling Party

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

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