Tropescilloscope: Asshole Victim

A character (usually a villain) suffers a horrific, but well deserved death or punishment. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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