Tropescilloscope: Mexican Standoff

Anyone uses their weapon, everyone dies. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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