Tropescilloscope: Dwindling Party

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

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