Tropescilloscope: Kill 'em All

The entire main cast dies. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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