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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Training Montage Getting Crap Past the Radar Rated M for Manly Gender Flip As Himself Translation Convention Anyone Can Die Unusually Uninteresting Sight Only in It for the Money The Quiet One Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Daylight Horror Retcon Chase Scene Tap on the Head No Good Deed Goes Unpunished "The Reason You Suck" Speech One-Word Title Dies Wide Open Sanity Slippage Papa Wolf Fun with Acronyms Adaptation Expansion Naked People Are Funny May–December Romance Asshole Victim Nothing Is Scarier The X of Y Psycho for Hire It's All About Me Humans Are Bastards Kick the Dog Freudian Excuse Eagleland Domestic Abuse Kids Are Cruel Made of Explodium Armor-Piercing Question Epic Fail Crazy-Prepared Obstructive Bureaucrat Rasputinian Death Eyepatch of Power Aww, Look! 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Stock Footage Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Woman in White Arch-Enemy Defiant to the End Creator Cameo Mighty Whitey The Smart Guy Adapted Out Girl-on-Girl Is Hot NO INDOOR VOICE Catapult Nightmare Sadistic Choice Dogged Nice Guy Deliberate Values Dissonance Cluster F-Bomb Insistent Terminology Call-Forward Costume Porn Becoming the Mask Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Rewatch Bonus Meaningful Echo Australian Movies Due to the Dead Mercy Kill N-Word Privileges Horror Comedy Everyone Has Standards Once More, with Clarity! Batman Gambit Riddle for the Ages From Nobody to Nightmare Public Domain Feature Films Fake Shemp Took a Level in Badass Slasher Movie All Girls Want Bad Boys Did Not Get the Girl The Chick Continuity Nod Age Lift Worthy Opponent The Ace The Alleged Car Genre Throwback Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Hypocritical Humor Genre Shift Freeze-Frame Bonus Spiritual Successor Super Strength The Cavalry Undying Loyalty Dirty Cop Cold-Blooded Torture Sacrificial Lion Scenery Porn Epic Movie Black Comedy Sir Swears-a-Lot La Résistance War Is Hell Drives Like Crazy Serious Business Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Badass in a Nice Suit Decoy Protagonist Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Shower Scene The Dog Bites Back Soft Glass "Well Done, Son!" Guy Rule of Three Oh, Crap! Rich Bitch Ass Shove As the Good Book Says... Historical Hero Upgrade Face–Heel Turn Does This Remind You of Anything? Good Is Not Nice Not So Above It All Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy More Dakka Unspoken Plan Guarantee Dirty Coward Cool Shades Based on a True Story Deal with the Devil Imagine Spot From Bad to Worse Gold Digger Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Police Brutality Sinister Minister Random Events Plot Death by Adaptation Red Oni, Blue Oni The Ditz The Hero Dies