Tropescilloscope: Dwindling Party

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

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