Tropescilloscope: Dwindling Party

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

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