Tropescilloscope: Men Are the Expendable Gender

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

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