Tropescilloscope: Retirony

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

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