Tropescilloscope: Retirony

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

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