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