Tropescilloscope: Men Are the Expendable Gender

Male death and suffering is less important than female death and suffering. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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