Tropescilloscope: Asshole Victim

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

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