Tropescilloscope: Asshole Victim

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

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