Tropescilloscope: Asshole Victim

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

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