Tropescilloscope: Sole Survivor

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

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