Tropescilloscope: Retirony

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

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