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