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