Tropescilloscope: Sole Survivor

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

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