Tropescilloscope: Sole Survivor

The one who didn't die. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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