Tropescilloscope: Redshirt Army

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

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