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