Tropescilloscope: Redshirt Army

Good guy Mooks... or many nameless extras who will die. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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