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