Tropescilloscope: Red Shirt

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