Tropescilloscope: Red Shirt

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