Tropescilloscope: Kill 'em All

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

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