Tropescilloscope: Red Shirt

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