Tropescilloscope: Sole Survivor

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

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