Tropescilloscope: Sole Survivor

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

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