Tropescilloscope: Asshole Victim

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

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