Tropescilloscope: Sole Survivor

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

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