Tropescilloscope: Red Shirt

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