Tropescilloscope: Redshirt Army

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

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Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Dirty Coward The '90s Fantastic Racism Wham Shot Psycho for Hire Nice Hat Double Entendre Fate Worse than Death Fourth Date Marriage Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Never My Fault Kill 'em All Brick Joke Parental Abandonment Famous Last Words Ms. Fanservice Smoking Is Cool The '60s The Brute Knife Nut Make It Look Like an Accident Skewed Priorities Trailers Always Spoil Reality Has No Subtitles Babies Ever After Fanservice Extra Fish out of Water Chekhov's Gunman No Antagonist Big-Bad Ensemble Improbable Weapon User NO INDOOR VOICE Air-Vent Passageway Continuity Nod Riddle for the Ages Pay Evil unto Evil "Shaggy Dog" Story What Happened to the Mouse? Even Evil Has Loved Ones Men Are the Expendable Gender Crucified Hero Shot Artistic License – Gun Safety Obviously Evil Disproportionate Retribution Karma Houdini Shut Up, Hannibal! Determinator aka: The Determinator Belligerent Sexual Tension Not So Different Bring My Brown Pants Defrosting Ice Queen Break the Haughty Almost Kiss Shout-Out Idiot Ball "The Reason You Suck" Speech Our Zombies Are Different Refuge in Audacity Christmas Movies Index Would Hit a Girl Heroes Want Redheads Shell-Shocked Veteran Music Stories Dramatic Gun Cock Leitmotif Bolivian Army Ending Leaning on the Fourth Wall Ax-Crazy Outrun the Fireball Vomit Indiscretion Shot Shower Scene A God Am I Cowboy Cop Bowdlerise Gold Digger Ghost Fiction Agony of the Feet Due to the Dead Determinator Groin Attack The Quiet One Demoted to Extra Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Offscreen Teleportation Television Movie Index Broken Pedestal Totally Radical Evil Is Petty Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Pyrrhic Victory Index of Film Westerns No Ending All Just a Dream Blood from the Mouth Dramedy Children Are Innocent May–December Romance Race Lift Flashback Leave the Camera Running Major Injury Underreaction Asshole Victim Redshirt Army From Nobody to Nightmare Enemy Mine Getting Crap Past the Radar Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Anyone Can Die Scary Black Man Rule of Cool The Ghost Red Herring Adaptation Expansion Cat Scare Eagleland Historical-Domain Character Man on Fire Actually Pretty Funny Running Gag Implacable Man "Well Done, Son!" 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