Tropescilloscope: Retirony

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

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