Tropescilloscope: Red Shirt

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