Tropescilloscope: Redshirt Army

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

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