Tropescilloscope: Sole Survivor

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

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