Tropescilloscope: Redshirt Army

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

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