Tropescilloscope: Retirony

Characters often die just before they retire from a dangerous job. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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