Tropescilloscope: Sole Survivor

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

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