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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Guy Rich Bitch Parental Abandonment Anti-Villain Action Genre Black Comedy Rape You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! 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Every Car Is a Pinto Cold-Blooded Torture Beta Couple Meaningful Background Event The Quiet One Drugs Are Bad Too Dumb to Live "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Intergenerational Friendship Genre Savvy Not So Above It All Worthy Opponent Handicapped Badass Deadpan Snarker Final Girl Adaptation Dye-Job MacGuffin Red Right Hand It's All About Me Cool Old Guy Tagline Break the Cutie Honor Before Reason She's Got Legs In Medias Res Cruel and Unusual Death Bottomless Magazines Artistic License – Gun Safety Anachronic Order Femme Fatale Sequel Escalation Badass in a Nice Suit Soft Glass Cat Fight Amoral Attorney Crapsack World Punny Name An Axe to Grind Bound and Gagged The Ace Sinister Minister Insane Troll Logic Establishing Character Moment Stepford Smiler Smug Snake Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Paper-Thin Disguise Real Life Writes the Plot Villain Opening Scene Malevolent Masked Men Rape as Drama Continuity Nod Only in It for the Money Genre Shift "Shaggy Dog" Story Trailers Always Spoil Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience The Film of the Book Evil Is Hammy After the End All Men Are Perverts Gilligan Cut Cain and Abel Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds The Load Heel Realization Dual Wielding Authority Equals Asskicking Unusually Uninteresting Sight For the Evulz Bring My Brown Pants The Brute Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Refuge in Audacity Catapult Nightmare Adaptational Villainy Auto Erotica What You Are in the Dark Twist Ending Manchild Obviously Evil Retired Badass Fiery Redhead Alliterative Name Scenery Gorn All Just a Dream Slasher Smile Imagine Spot Adaptational Heroism Military and Warfare Films Credits Gag Only Sane Man Developing Doomed Characters He Who Fights Monsters Dumb Blonde Taking the Bullet Fake Shemp Bond One-Liner NO INDOOR VOICE Does Not Like Shoes And the Adventure Continues Grievous Bottley Harm The X of Y Romantic False Lead Intrepid Reporter Broken Bird Big Applesauce Famous Last Words Meaningful Echo Wham Line Television Movie Index Diabolus ex Machina The Musical Revenge Freeze-Frame Bonus Leaning on the Fourth Wall Card-Carrying Villain Loads and Loads of Characters Broken Pedestal Big "NO!" 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Psychopathic Manchild Demoted to Extra Chekhov's Skill Cluster F-Bomb Artistic License – Military The Voiceless Gone Horribly Right Faux Affably Evil Fantastic Racism Funny Foreigner Plucky Comic Relief Curse Cut Short Canadian Movies Married to the Job Motor Mouth Fish out of Water Dogged Nice Guy Captain Obvious Vomit Discretion Shot Ghost Fiction From Nobody to Nightmare Gold Digger Eureka Moment Celebrity Paradox Character Development Sadistic Choice Eldritch Abomination Action Girl Blatant Lies Antagonist Title Fat Bastard Chekhov's Gun Pimped-Out Dress Scare Chord Kill 'em All And I Must Scream Make It Look Like an Accident Evil Is Petty The Stoic Psycho for Hire Didn't Think This Through Overprotective Dad Mr. Exposition Half the Man He Used to Be Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Evil vs. Evil Bury Your Gays Title Drop The Stinger Author Avatar Retcon Villain with Good Publicity Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Anyone Can Die Bavarian Fire Drill There Is No Kill Like Overkill Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Hero of Another Story Gorn Reality Has No Subtitles The '70s Animal Title Index Karmic Death Older Than They Look Major Injury Underreaction Mad Scientist Belligerent Sexual Tension Neck Snap Country Matters Sassy Black Woman Disney Villain Death The Starscream Expository Hairstyle Change Adaptation Distillation B-Movie Big Bad Duumvirate Eyepatch of Power Silence Is Golden Early Installment Weirdness Missing Mom Drowning My Sorrows Romantic Comedy Jitter Cam Heel–Face Turn Eye Scream Creator Cameo Heroic BSoD Rousing Speech Stuff Blowing Up Non-Indicative Name Police Brutality Large Ham Knife Nut Pragmatic Villainy I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Time Skip Vitriolic Best Buds Adults Are Useless Artistic License – Physics From Bad to Worse Crazy-Prepared Calling the Old Man Out Ripped from the Headlines Fan Disservice Contrived Coincidence You Have Failed Me I'm a Humanitarian