Tropescilloscope: Redshirt Army

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

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