Tropescilloscope: Redshirt Army

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

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