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