Tropescilloscope: Retirony

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

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