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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Is Serious Business Reality Is Unrealistic Adaptational Heroism As Himself Here We Go Again! Wrong Genre Savvy Market-Based Title Straight Gay Offscreen Moment of Awesome Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Kill It with Fire And Starring Dirty Coward Evil Plan Manic Pixie Dream Girl Tranquil Fury Love at First Sight Paper-Thin Disguise Ungrateful Bastard Index of Film Westerns Large Ham Pretty Little Headshots Dropped a Bridge on Him All There in the Manual Fake Shemp Mama Bear Big-Bad Ensemble Heterosexual Life-Partners Historical-Domain Character Bond Villain Stupidity In the Back Real Life Writes the Plot Parental Incest Animal Motifs One-Word Title Apocalypse How Small Name, Big Ego Yandere Naïve Newcomer Alpha Bitch La Résistance Bland-Name Product Get Out! 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They Really Do Love Each Other Villain Ball Pragmatic Adaptation Meaningful Background Event The Stoic Soft Glass Captain Ersatz The Cameo Cool Old Guy Offscreen Teleportation Better to Die than Be Killed BFG Artistic License – Physics Children Are Innocent Cloudcuckoolander Defrosting Ice Queen Did Not Get the Girl Aluminum Christmas Trees My Greatest Failure Green-Eyed Monster Undying Loyalty Novelization Improbable Aiming Skills B-Movie Gory Discretion Shot Gone Horribly Right Take a Third Option Eldritch Abomination Foreshadowing Early Installment Weirdness Fourth Date Marriage The Casanova Nothing Is Scarier Rasputinian Death Major Injury Underreaction Men Are the Expendable Gender Brainless Beauty Bond One-Liner Defiant to the End Ambiguously Gay Bloodier and Gorier Those Two Bad Guys Dumb Blonde Death by Sex Anachronic Order Protagonist Title Mr. Exposition Slashed Throat Country Matters Drowning My Sorrows Worthy Opponent All There in the Script Neck Lift Non-Indicative Name Double-Meaning Title Psychopathic Manchild Combat Pragmatist Anti-Villain Fatal Family Photo Evil Is Petty The Un-Reveal Martial Arts Movie The Hero Vitriolic Best Buds Silence Is Golden Leaning on the Fourth Wall Sequel Escalation Artistic License – Biology Vomit Indiscretion Shot Race Against the Clock Grievous Bottley Harm Badass in a Nice Suit Darkest Hour Conspicuous CG Rule of Symbolism Homage In Medias Res Token Minority "The Reason You Suck" Speech Call-Back Blackmail Re-Cut Redshirt Army Fatal Flaw Bar Brawl Shell-Shocked Veteran Breaking the Fourth Wall Noodle Incident No-Sell "Shaggy Dog" Story Mythology Gag Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Dwindling Party Christmas Movies Index Police Brutality Black Comedy Camera Abuse Mundane Made Awesome Disguised in Drag Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Humiliation Conga Advertised Extra Fanservice Extra Blood Knight Unresolved Sexual Tension Due to the Dead Serious Business Pretty in Mink Russian Films Naked People Are Funny French Films Honor Before Reason Room Full of Crazy Film Series Have a Gay Old Time Earn Your Happy Ending Costume Porn Slasher Movie Those Two Guys Mad Scientist Rule of Cool Chekhov's Skill Adaptation Expansion Even Evil Has Loved Ones Chuck Cunningham Syndrome The Place This Is Gonna Suck Dark and Troubled Past Ripped from the Headlines The Lost Lenore Creator Cameo Spared by the Adaptation One-Man Army Heroic Sacrifice Gender Flip Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Fanservice Interrupted Suicide Overprotective Dad Mercy Kill What the Hell, Hero? 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Disney Death Determinator aka: The Determinator Hollywood Darkness Artistic License – Geography Happily Married Spiteful Spit Evil Brit Aside Glance Bilingual Bonus Amusing Injuries Attempted Rape Killed Mid-Sentence Freeze-Frame Bonus The Starscream Horror Comedy Say My Name The Voiceless Male Frontal Nudity Hollywood Law Eye Scream Your Cheating Heart Creepy Child Taking the Bullet Those Wacky Nazis No Name Given Broken Pedestal Shoot the Shaggy Dog The Dog Bites Back She's Got Legs You Killed My Father May–December Romance Music Stories The Alcoholic The X of Y Stepford Smiler A Date with Rosie Palms The Musical Spell My Name with an "S" Hero of Another Story Death of a Child Evil Counterpart All Girls Want Bad Boys folderlabel Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Despair Event Horizon Easily Forgiven Villain Song Based on a True Story Made of Iron The Stinger Crazy Jealous Guy Lock and Load Montage The '70s Only in It for the Money Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Revenge Cool Car Psycho for Hire Wham Line Romantic False Lead Dies Wide Open Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Face Death with Dignity Leitmotif Big Brother Instinct Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Obviously Evil Historical In-Joke Took a Level in Badass Black Dude Dies First Not Quite Dead Chekhov's Gun Award-Bait Song Woman in White Expository Hairstyle Change Curb-Stomp Battle Faking the Dead Hair-Trigger Temper Take That! Mystery and Detective Films The Stoner Extremely Short Timespan Diabolus ex Machina Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Evil Laugh The Chessmaster Armor-Piercing Question Developing Doomed Characters Precision F-Strike Historical Hero Upgrade Unspoken Plan Guarantee Double Entendre Adult Fear Central Theme Does This Remind You of Anything? For the Evulz Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Not Even Bothering with the Accent She Cleans Up Nicely Rewatch Bonus Slasher Smile Faux Affably Evil Back from the Dead Police are Useless Shipper on Deck Funny Background Event Abusive Parents Freudian Excuse Taking You with Me Corrupt Corporate Executive Title Drop "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Artistic License – Military You Have Failed Me All for Nothing Ghost Fiction Friend to All Children How We Got Here Betty and Veronica Badass Normal Dirty Old Man Guns Akimbo Downer Ending Heel Realization The Cavalry Damsel in Distress An Arm and a Leg Vomit Discretion Shot Refuge in Audacity Hero Antagonist I Did What I Had to Do Affably Evil Sanity Slippage Fun with Acronyms Manipulative Bastard Sole Survivor Slap-Slap-Kiss Properly Paranoid The Alleged Car 20 Minutes into the Future More Dakka My Beloved Smother Unusual Euphemism Establishing Character Moment Fan Disservice Camp Gay Alliterative Name Ass Shove Composite Character Daddy's Girl Only One Name Needs Wiki Magic Love Madness Mantra A Father to His Men The End... Or Is It? Older Than They Look Gratuitous English Air-Vent Passageway Romantic Comedy Big Bad Duumvirate Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Irony Fire-Forged Friends Accidental Murder Agony of the Feet Wicked Cultured Roaring Rampage of Revenge The Load Epic Movie Insult Backfire The Big Guy Handicapped Badass There Is No Kill Like Overkill Deliberate Values Dissonance Arc Words Shower Scene Every Car Is a Pinto Bowdlerise Historical Villain Upgrade Nice Guy Good Is Not Nice Eiffel Tower Effect Stylistic Suck Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! 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Too Dumb to Live Reckless Gun Usage Adaptational Villainy Well-Intentioned Extremist Heel–Face Turn Obfuscating Stupidity Extreme Doormat Enemy Mine Manchild The Smart Guy Scenery Gorn Karmic Death The Brute Eureka Moment Cain and Abel Grey and Gray Morality No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Retired Badass Plot Hole Dogged Nice Guy Running Gag Eagleland Italian Films Decoy Protagonist Make It Look Like an Accident Alas, Poor Villain Retcon Scary Black Man My God, What Have I Done? Whole Plot Reference Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Final Girl Villain Opening Scene Death Glare Your Head A-Splode Fish out of Water Lighter and Softer Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Lampshade Hanging Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Instant Death Bullet Heroes Want Redheads Maybe Ever After The Atoner Film Noir Index Canadian Movies Asshole Victim Jerk with a Heart of Gold Animal Title Index The Dragon Coming-of-Age Story Moment Killer Twist Ending Depraved Bisexual Four-Temperament Ensemble Suddenly SHOUTING! Let's Get Dangerous! Chekhov's Gunman Storming the Castle Even Evil Has Standards The Mole Leave the Camera Running Dark Is Not Evil Throwing Your Sword Always Works Nice Hat Call-Forward Big Fancy House Cruel and Unusual Death Deus ex Machina Gilligan Cut Stealth Hi/Bye Mistaken for Gay Drill Sergeant Nasty Corpsing Works Set in World War II Never Trust a Trailer Up to Eleven Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Catch-Phrase Random Events Plot Idiot Ball Failed a Spot Check Henpecked Husband The Ace Artistic License – Gun Safety Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Married to the Job I Have Your Wife Unusually Uninteresting Sight Black Best Friend Deadpan Snarker Visual Pun I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Recycled IN SPACE! A God Am I Knife Nut Artistic License – Law Cowboy Cop Reasonable Authority Figure Neck Snap Sassy Black Woman Setting Update Cold-Blooded Torture Half the Man He Used to Be Brother–Sister Incest Put on a Bus Punch-Clock Villain A Minor Kidroduction Gorn "Well Done, Son!" Guy The '80s Truth in Television Logo Joke Horror Films Evil vs. Evil All Just a Dream MacGuffin Jerk Jock Mooks Light Is Not Good Pyrrhic Victory Reality Has No Subtitles Does Not Like Shoes Beware the Nice Ones Karma Houdini Bring My Brown Pants Break the Cutie Disappeared Dad Race Lift Auto Erotica Chewing the Scenery Bury Your Gays Pragmatic Villainy Rape as Drama Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Beauty Is Never Tarnished The Dreaded Sci-Fi Horror Together in Death Adorkable The Oner Crazy-Prepared Once More, with Clarity! Tagline Drugs Are Bad Action Girl Insane Troll Logic Love Triangle Adaptation Distillation Scare Chord No Ending Rich Bitch Authority Equals Asskicking Imagine Spot Fate Worse than Death Soundtrack Dissonance