Tropescilloscope: Better to Die than Be Killed

Someone commits suicide to avoid falling into enemy hands. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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