Tropescilloscope: Red Shirt

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