Tropescilloscope: Red Shirt

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