Tropescilloscope: Redshirt Army

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

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