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 Made of Explodium Improbable Weapon User Damsel in Distress A Father to His Men Genre Shift Police are Useless Match Cut Faking the Dead Death Seeker Apocalypse How Blood Knight Pre-Mortem One-Liner Greater-Scope Villain Chiaroscuro Historical Villain Upgrade Funny Background Event Take a Third Option Covers Always Lie Deal with the Devil Danny Peary Cult Movies List La Résistance As the Good Book Says... Dies Wide Open Kubrick Stare Happily Married Kids Are Cruel Spiteful Spit The Chick Catapult Nightmare Diabolus ex Machina Logo Joke Plucky Comic Relief Establishing Character Moment The Starscream Imagine Spot Chekhov's Gun Offscreen Teleportation Dirty Cop Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Brick Joke One Steve Limit Gold Digger Not Even Bothering with the Accent Star-Crossed Lovers Not What It Looks Like Screw the Rules, I Have Money! 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In the Back Retirony Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Fanservice Extra Bring My Brown Pants Closed Circle Cluster F-Bomb Male Frontal Nudity Department of Redundancy Department Adaptation Dye-Job Bilingual Bonus Bare Your Midriff All Girls Want Bad Boys Protagonist Title You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Video Credits Captain Obvious Blackmail Heroic Sacrifice I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Ironic Echo Punny Name Morality Pet British Films It's All About Me Air-Vent Passageway Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Refuge in Audacity Brutal Honesty Deliberately Monochrome Married to the Job Setting Update Freeze-Frame Bonus Deconstruction Bloody Hilarious Big Bad Duumvirate Tagline Real Life Ragtag Bunch of Misfits And the Adventure Continues Hollywood Law Affectionate Parody Casting Gag And I Must Scream Chekhov's Gunman Rule of Symbolism Film Series Belligerent Sexual Tension Hell Is That Noise Four-Temperament Ensemble Show Within a Show Badass Boast Red Shirt Comically Missing the Point Television Movie Index Funny Foreigner Self-Deprecation Suspiciously Specific Denial Adaptation Name Change Badass Bookworm Cat Fight She Cleans Up Nicely Novelization Fatal Flaw Manipulative Bastard Malevolent Masked Men French Films Revenge Those Wacky Nazis Creepy Child Paper-Thin Disguise Riddle for the Ages My Greatest Failure Took a Level in Badass Fish out of Water Almost Kiss Re-Cut Very Loosely Based on a True Story Pimped-Out Dress Beauty Is Never Tarnished Book-Ends Not So Above It All Random Events Plot Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Take That! 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Race Against the Clock Does Not Like Shoes A.I. Is a Crapshoot Hero Antagonist Silence Is Golden Anguished Declaration of Love Offscreen Moment of Awesome Heterosexual Life-Partners Kick the Son of a Bitch Arc Words Black Comedy B-Movie The Remake As Long as It Sounds Foreign Taking the Bullet Informed Ability The Bad Guy Wins Dogged Nice Guy Ungrateful Bastard Unusual Euphemism Handicapped Badass The Sociopath Canon Foreigner Wham Line Loads and Loads of Characters The Atoner Rape as Drama Narrator An Arm and a Leg Shown Their Work Disproportionate Retribution Fat Bastard Your Head A-Splode Double-Meaning Title Here We Go Again! Cool Shades Never Found the Body Jitter Cam Dissonant Serenity The Place What You Are in the Dark Accidental Murder Dumb Blonde I'm a Humanitarian Distracted by the Sexy Deus ex Machina BFG Karma Houdini Alas, Poor Villain Captain Ersatz Bavarian Fire Drill Rasputinian Death Sacrificial Lion Red Right Hand The Reveal I Have Your Wife Gilligan Cut Amoral Attorney The Alleged Car Psychopathic Manchild Evil Plan May–December Romance Advertised Extra Bittersweet Ending She's Got Legs Idiot Ball Only One Name Slasher Movie Fun with Acronyms Gratuitous English Enemy Mine Abusive Parents No OSHA Compliance Deadpan Snarker Bond One-Liner Determinator Cold-Blooded Torture The Chessmaster Heel Realization Grey and Gray Morality Artistic License – Law Evil Is Hammy Names to Run Away from Really Fast Well-Intentioned Extremist Homage Manic Pixie Dream Girl Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Killed Mid-Sentence Contrived Coincidence Once More, with Clarity! Did Not Get the Girl The '70s Slap-Slap-Kiss Properly Paranoid Would Hit a Girl Even Evil Has Loved Ones Toplessness from the Back The Ditz Red Herring Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Broken Bird Rousing Speech Fan Disservice Shirtless Scene Whole Plot Reference Hair-Trigger Temper Would Hurt a Child Those Two Guys Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Disney Death Actor Allusion Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Scenery Porn More Dakka Death of a Child Suspiciously Similar Substitute Bowdlerise Dressing as the Enemy Crucified Hero Shot Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Bloodless Carnage Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Big Eater Hypocrite Creator Cameo Villain with Good Publicity Antagonist Title Police Brutality Rated M for Manly Be Careful What You Wish For Badass in a Nice Suit Defiant to the End Running Gag Famous Last Words Eyepatch of Power Curse Cut Short Red Oni, Blue Oni Dying Moment of Awesome Reality Has No Subtitles What the Hell, Hero? 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Obfuscating Stupidity Villain Opening Scene Stylistic Suck Obstructive Bureaucrat Adult Fear Mercy Kill Only a Flesh Wound Stealth Pun Insane Troll Logic Taking You with Me Outrun the Fireball Gone Horribly Right Brainless Beauty The Stoner Exact Words The Dragon Badass Grandpa Gainax Ending Made of Iron Early Installment Weirdness The Alcoholic Important Haircut All There in the Manual Evil Counterpart Men Are the Expendable Gender Bullying a Dragon Cat Scare He Knows Too Much O.O.C. Is Serious Business Adults Are Useless The Mafia Get Out! Meet Cute The Bully Artistic License – Military The Ace Off-into-the-Distance Ending Loophole Abuse Gorn Action Girl Half the Man He Used to Be Tempting Fate Gender Flip Rewatch Bonus Conspicuous CG Silent Movie Music Stories Mighty Whitey Parental Incest Corpsing Ship Tease Hidden Depths Broken Aesop The Quiet One Extreme Doormat The Musical Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Fainting Bond Villain Stupidity It's Personal Black Best Friend Cowboy Cop And Starring Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Darkest Hour Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold I Need a Freaking Drink Blood from the Mouth Dark Is Not Evil Epic Fail Bad Boss Hypocritical Humor Papa Wolf Precision F-Strike Instant Death Bullet Moment Killer Dutch Angle Nice Guy Product Placement Dull Surprise Despair Event Horizon Car Fu Henpecked Husband Pyrrhic Victory Developing Doomed Characters Bound and Gagged Punch-Clock Villain Honor Before Reason Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Country Matters Death by Adaptation Dark and Troubled Past Improvised Weapon Femme Fatale Evil Is Petty Screw the Money, I Have Rules! This Is Gonna Suck Earn Your Happy Ending Improbable Aiming Skills "The Reason You Suck" Speech Throwing Your Sword Always Works Bury Your Gays Meaningful Background Event Bloodier and Gorier Eureka Moment Not So Stoic Naked People Are Funny Redshirt Army Kill 'em All The Vamp Worthy Opponent Insult Backfire Darker and Edgier Sports Stories Butt-Monkey Victoria's Secret Compartment Easily Forgiven Lock and Load Montage Guile Hero Actually Pretty Funny Anachronism Stew Too Dumb to Live Black and Gray Morality Better to Die than Be Killed Babies Ever After Tranquil Fury Auto Erotica Hope Spot Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Shipper on Deck Action Prologue No Name Given Asshole Victim Beard of Evil Skewed Priorities Wretched Hive Mexican Standoff Major Injury Underreaction Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Cool Guns Truth in Television Beta Couple Action Survivor Evil Laugh Big Applesauce The Power of Love Celebrity Paradox Expy Chekhov's Skill Hollywood Darkness Beware the Nice Ones Cloudcuckoolander Mr. Fanservice Vomit Indiscretion Shot Male Gaze Sadistic Choice Demonic Possession Karmic Death Due to the Dead Lampshade Hanging Big Fancy House One-Man Army Pretty in Mink Dual Wielding Deliberate Values Dissonance Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality The Stinger Camp Gay Domestic Abuse Knight Templar Heroic BSoD Aside Glance Adaptational Villainy Have a Gay Old Time Race Lift The Casanova Really Gets Around Determinator aka: The Determinator Jerk Jock Mind Screw Villainous Breakdown Agony of the Feet Cool Old Lady Make It Look Like an Accident Zombie Stories Curb-Stomp Battle Sequel Escalation Mad Scientist Blatant Lies Let's Get Dangerous! Reality Is Unrealistic Brother–Sister Incest Freudian Excuse Exactly What It Says on the Tin Obviously Evil Wounded Gazelle Gambit Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Token Minority Shout-Out Catch-Phrase Vacation Films Documentary Romantic False Lead Foil Five-Man Band Chase Scene Recycled IN SPACE! 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Facial Horror Older Than They Look Villain Song MacGuffin Pragmatic Adaptation Eiffel Tower Effect Jump Scare Shoot the Shaggy Dog No Good Deed Goes Unpunished How We Got Here Stalker with a Crush The Ghost Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Left the Background Music On Affably Evil Neck Lift Took a Level in Jerkass Light Is Not Good Man on Fire Friend to All Children Black Comedy Rape Defrosting Ice Queen Disappeared Dad Badass Normal Cool Old Guy Genre Savvy Bottomless Magazines Arranged Marriage Only Known by Their Nickname Alpha Bitch The Smurfette Principle Manchild An Axe to Grind Film Noir Index Scary Black Man Drugs Are Bad Anyone Can Die Parental Neglect Roger Ebert: Great Movies List As You Know It Will Never Catch On Noodle Incident My God, What Have I Done? Mystery and Detective Films An Aesop Empathic Environment Nice Hat Disney Villain Death Shell-Shocked Veteran All There in the Script The Dog Bites Back Black Dude Dies First Ghost Fiction Death by Irony Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Sole Survivor Early-Bird Cameo Trailers Always Spoil Public Domain Feature Films Big Brother Instinct Unreliable Narrator Jerk with a Heart of Gold Call-Forward Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Christmas Movies Index Adorkable Twist Ending Destination Defenestration Psycho for Hire