Tropescilloscope: Redshirt Army

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

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Is a Crapshoot Badass Grandpa Spell My Name with an "S" Only a Flesh Wound Cool Shades Evil Cannot Comprehend Good BFG Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Jitter Cam Outrun the Fireball Laughing Mad Accidental Misnaming Greater-Scope Villain This Is Gonna Suck Badass Bookworm Insistent Terminology Victoria's Secret Compartment Running Gag Artistic License – Gun Safety No-Sell Stealth Pun Awesome, but Impractical Names to Run Away from Really Fast Dark and Troubled Past Bottomless Magazines One Steve Limit Russian Films Card-Carrying Villain Needs Wiki Magic Love Blood from the Mouth The '90s Your Cheating Heart Dull Surprise Fire-Forged Friends Adaptation Name Change Grey and Gray Morality Bait-and-Switch All Men Are Perverts Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Adapted Out The Dragon Killed Mid-Sentence MacGuffin Villain Song Dressing as the Enemy Get Out! Rewatch Bonus Almost Kiss Groin Attack Shipper on Deck I Need a Freaking Drink Expository Hairstyle Change Ambiguous Ending Took a Level in Jerkass Slasher Smile Artistic License – Physics Left the Background Music On British Films Creepy Child Face–Heel Turn How We Got Here Driven to Suicide Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Corpsing Stock Footage The Starscream Once More, with Clarity! 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The Chick Dirty Coward Mind Screw Humiliation Conga Translation Convention Redemption Equals Death Bound and Gagged Does This Remind You of Anything? The Ditz Neck Lift Combat Pragmatist Brother–Sister Incest Tagline It's All About Me Insult Backfire Riddle for the Ages Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Curb-Stomp Battle Jerkass Line-of-Sight Name Man on Fire Sealed Evil in a Can Costume Porn "Shaggy Dog" Story Continuity Nod The '80s The Cavalry Worthy Opponent Word of God Pet the Dog Action Girl Bilingual Bonus Offscreen Moment of Awesome Christmas Movies Index Contrived Coincidence Screw the Money, I Have Rules! And I Must Scream Boom, Headshot! Pretty in Mink Only in It for the Money folderlabel All Just a Dream Brick Joke As Himself Black Dude Dies First All There in the Script No OSHA Compliance Missing Mom Handicapped Badass Slap-Slap-Kiss Heel–Face Turn Getting Crap Past the Radar Dual Wielding Noodle Incident Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Adorkable Shut Up, Hannibal! Film Noir Index War Is Hell Idiot Ball The Great Depression Eiffel Tower Effect Storming the Castle Blood Knight Animated Credits Opening The Big Guy Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Not Even Bothering with the Accent Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Wrong Genre Savvy Beauty Is Never Tarnished Same Language Dub Darker and Edgier You Have Failed Me Improbable Aiming Skills Arc Words Market-Based Title The Voiceless Hong Kong Films Spiteful Spit No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Scenery Porn Back from the Dead Anti-Villain Dark Is Not Evil Bland-Name Product The Casanova Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! As Long as It Sounds Foreign Mama Bear Action Genre The '70s Captain Ersatz Plot Hole Dwindling Party Madness Mantra Unwitting Instigator of Doom Kill 'em All Body Horror Hell Is That Noise Works Set in World War II Hero Antagonist Stepford Smiler Department of Redundancy Department Vitriolic Best Buds Made of Explodium Darkest Hour Dies Wide Open Knife Nut Fish out of Water Rich Bitch Cassandra Truth Dark Reprise Babies Ever After Monumental Damage Rape as Drama Wicked Cultured Famous Last Words Loads and Loads of Characters Adaptation Dye-Job Last-Name Basis Everyone Has Standards Non-Indicative Name Fantasy Films Epic Fail Call-Forward Character Development Villain Ball Grievous Bottley Harm Setting Update Male Frontal Nudity Wretched Hive "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Meaningful Background Event Karmic Death Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Pre-Mortem One-Liner Not So Above It All Comically Missing the Point Small Name, Big Ego Let's Get Dangerous! Laser-Guided Karma Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Foregone Conclusion Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Daddy's Girl Early-Bird Cameo Big-Bad Ensemble German Films Leitmotif Disney Villain Death Title Drop Beard of Evil Dark Action Girl Call-Back He Knows Too Much Product Placement Artistic License – Biology Alliterative Name Dramatic Irony Overly Long Gag Dramedy Conspicuous CG Star-Crossed Lovers And the Adventure Continues The Musical Badass Normal I Have Your Wife Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Peek-a-Boo Corpse Hollywood Darkness Stylistic Suck Broken Bird Bullying a Dragon Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Politically Incorrect Villain Kick the Dog Disappeared Dad Bad Boss Those Wacky Nazis Big Eater Depraved Bisexual Say My Name The End... Or Is It? Fate Worse than Death Affably Evil Death by Sex Kill It with Fire Butt-Monkey In Name Only Take a Third Option As the Good Book Says... Shoot the Shaggy Dog Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Dropped a Bridge on Him Every Car Is a Pinto Sequel Escalation A Father to His Men Belligerent Sexual Tension Bittersweet Ending Spiritual Successor Sanity Slippage Fun with Acronyms From Bad to Worse Catch-Phrase Never My Fault Does Not Like Shoes Really Gets Around The Alleged Car She's Got Legs Police are Useless "The Reason You Suck" Speech Villain Protagonist For Want of a Nail Dumb Blonde Major Injury Underreaction She Cleans Up Nicely Motor Mouth Due to the Dead Evil Sounds Deep Suddenly SHOUTING! 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Bond One-Liner Biopic Cool Car Television Movie Index Disproportionate Retribution Suspiciously Similar Substitute Only One Name Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Faking the Dead Tranquil Fury Vampire Fiction For the Evulz Only Sane Man Ironic Echo Hoist by His Own Petard Gory Discretion Shot Downer Ending Celebrity Paradox An Axe to Grind Sexy Discretion Shot Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Green-Eyed Monster The Smart Guy Abhorrent Admirer Wounded Gazelle Gambit Canadian Movies Eyepatch of Power What Happened to the Mouse? Drill Sergeant Nasty Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Ax-Crazy Henpecked Husband Closed Circle Canon Foreigner Hair-Trigger Temper Evil Counterpart In Medias Res Superhero Silence Is Golden Loophole Abuse Coming-of-Age Story Parental Incest Not What It Looks Like Not Quite Dead Serious Business Bar Brawl Unresolved Sexual Tension Rule of Cool Fake Shemp Award-Bait Song The Cameo Vomit Indiscretion Shot Match Cut Action Prologue Better to Die than Be Killed Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Knight Templar Destination Defenestration Would Hit a Girl Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Freeze-Frame Bonus Made of Iron Room Full of Crazy Beware the Nice Ones Covers Always Lie Death by Irony Improbable Weapon User Jerk with a Heart of Gold Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Very Loosely Based on a True Story Woman in White Real Life Writes the Plot Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Random Events Plot The Atoner The Load Film Noir Danny Peary Cult Movies List Deliberate Values Dissonance Suspiciously Specific Denial What the Hell, Hero? Car Fu Ripped from the Headlines Naked People Are Funny Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! B-Movie Retirony Mythology Gag Eagleland Red Herring Soundtrack Dissonance Up to Eleven Breaking the Fourth Wall The Ace An Arm and a Leg Precision F-Strike Stalker with a Crush Based on a True Story Mistaken for Gay Aluminum Christmas Trees Totally Radical Ungrateful Bastard Dying Moment of Awesome Defrosting Ice Queen Time Skip Agony of the Feet Genre Savvy Mooks Interrupted Suicide In the Back Villainous Breakdown Camp Gay "Well Done, Son!" Guy Never Trust a Trailer Cluster F-Bomb The Alcoholic No Ending Annoying Younger Sibling Gold Digger Malevolent Masked Men Manchild Break the Cutie Logo Joke Actor Allusion Disguised in Drag 20 Minutes into the Future Antagonist Title All Girls Want Bad Boys Super Strength Shout-Out Re-Cut Narrator Crapsack World My Beloved Smother Pyrrhic Victory Kids Are Cruel Extreme Doormat The Stoner Put on a Bus Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Curse Cut Short Fiery Redhead Imagine Spot Ship Tease Mr. Fanservice Dutch Angle Reality Ensues Attempted Rape Big Bad Sports Stories Hate Sink Author Avatar Married to the Job Video Credits Horror Comedy Big Bad Duumvirate Take That! Amoral Attorney Earn Your Happy Ending I'm a Humanitarian Diabolus ex Machina Historical Hero Upgrade Alas, Poor Villain Important Haircut Pimped-Out Dress Offscreen Teleportation Authority Equals Asskicking Twist Ending Gender Flip Make It Look Like an Accident Together in Death Mundane Made Awesome More Dakka The Stinger Throwing Your Sword Always Works Unspoken Plan Guarantee Kubrick Stare Refuge in Audacity Smug Snake Deliberately Monochrome Hypocrite One-Word Title Author Appeal Animal Motifs Ominous Latin Chanting Self-Deprecation Damsel in Distress Double-Meaning Title Genre Shift Badass in a Nice Suit The Lost Lenore Science Fiction Films Ghost Fiction As You Know Papa Wolf Fanservice Extra Would Hurt a Child Artistic License – Military Blackmail Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Black Comedy Rape Wham Line Guile Hero Chekhov's Gunman Fainting Animal Title Index Dissonant Serenity The Lancer Deus ex Machina Brainless Beauty Country Matters Big Applesauce Documentary Leaning on the Fourth Wall Morality Pet Broken Aesop Big "NO!" Framing Device Meet Cute Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Arranged Marriage Older Than They Look Apocalypse How Tap on the Head Rule of Three Military and Warfare Films Meaningful Echo Chekhov's Skill Instant Death Bullet Reckless Gun Usage Adaptation Expansion Brutal Honesty Plucky Comic Relief N-Word Privileges Love Triangle Pragmatic Adaptation Freudian Excuse Ass Shove Red Eyes, Take Warning Dirty Cop Intergenerational Friendship Soft Glass Mugging the Monster Our Vampires Are Different Impaled with Extreme Prejudice It Can Think Frame-Up Cat Scare Silent Movie Shower Scene Drugs Are Bad Only Known by Their Nickname Rule of Symbolism Visual Pun Chiaroscuro Berserk Button Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Adaptational Badass Camera Abuse Protagonist Title Jump Scare Punny Name Karma Houdini I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Japanese Films Deconstruction Red Shirt Horror Films Four-Temperament Ensemble '80s Hair Punch-Clock Villain Evil Is Hammy No Name Given Arch-Enemy Big Damn Heroes Fan Disservice Anguished Declaration of Love Psychological Thriller Be Careful What You Wish For Demoted to Extra Chase Scene Posthumous Character Facial Horror Undying Loyalty Bolivian Army Ending Cloudcuckoolander Pretty Little Headshots The Vamp Gilligan Cut Genre Throwback Drives Like Crazy All for Nothing The Brute Determinator Spanner in the Works Fat Bastard Have a Gay Old Time Implacable Man Mercy Kill No Antagonist Drowning My Sorrows Defiant to the End The Dreaded Light Is Not Good Easily Forgiven The Bad Guy Wins Intrepid Reporter Serial Killer Scary Black Man Extremely Short Timespan Death by Adaptation The Dog Bites Back Adaptational Attractiveness Gone Horribly Right Corrupt Corporate Executive After the End Armor-Piercing Question The Hero Dies Epic Movie The Faceless Adaptation Distillation Gratuitous English Straight Gay Gorn Evil vs. Evil Domestic Abuse Our Zombies Are Different Parental Neglect Playing Gertrude Bloody Hilarious Black Comedy Roaring Rampage of Revenge Sir Swears-a-Lot Poor Communication Kills Historical Villain Upgrade Half the Man He Used to Be Bond Villain Stupidity Unusual Euphemism Rousing Speech Hero of Another Story The Chessmaster Faux Affably Evil The Remake Music Stories Heroic BSoD Chekhov's Gun Calling the Old Man Out Martial Arts Movie Training Montage Big Fancy House Maybe Ever After Eye Scream Informed Ability Captain Obvious Sole Survivor May–December Romance Revenge Yandere Shell-Shocked Veteran Cain and Abel Blatant Lies Black Best Friend Funny Background Event Red Right Hand Affectionate Parody Anachronic Order Bloodier and Gorier Your Head A-Splode Those Two Guys Bunny-Ears Lawyer Hooker with a Heart of Gold Too Dumb to Live Dogged Nice Guy Humans Are Bastards Moment Killer Insane Troll Logic Tempting Fate Cruel and Unusual Death My God, What Have I Done? What You Are in the Dark Bi the Way La Résistance Cat Fight Death of a Child Fingore One-Man Army The Reveal Not So Stoic Evil-Detecting Dog Central Theme Badass Boast Eldritch Abomination Establishing Character Moment Batman Gambit Race Against the Clock No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Fatal Family Photo Crazy-Prepared The Mafia The '60s Abusive Parents Final Girl Bare Your Midriff