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