Tropescilloscope: Red Shirt

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