Tropescilloscope: Redshirt Army

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

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