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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Intergenerational Friendship Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Rated M for Manly No-Sell Big-Bad Ensemble Victoria's Secret Compartment For Want of a Nail Auto Erotica Meaningful Echo Men Are the Expendable Gender Chase Scene Horror Films Insistent Terminology Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Badass Bookworm Skewed Priorities Overprotective Dad Documentary Action Survivor NO INDOOR VOICE Idiot Ball Cool Old Lady Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Dutch Angle All There in the Script Shipper on Deck Outrun the Fireball Ambiguously Gay Authority Equals Asskicking Irony Drill Sergeant Nasty Unspoken Plan Guarantee The Reveal Deliberately Monochrome Gainax Ending Eldritch Abomination The Chessmaster Genre Savvy Babies Ever After Early Installment Weirdness "Awesome McCool" Name Epic Movie Improvised Weapon Twist Ending Adaptational Heroism Only Known by Their Nickname Hero of Another Story Offscreen Moment of Awesome Italian Films Kubrick Stare Henpecked Husband Protagonist Title An Axe to Grind Femme Fatale Up to Eleven Foreshadowing Obfuscating Stupidity Beauty Is Never Tarnished An Aesop Bar Brawl BFG Sports Stories Gold Digger Really Gets Around Informed Ability Lock and Load Montage Wrong Genre Savvy Fourth Date Marriage Continuity Nod Gilligan Cut Spanner in the Works Domestic Abuse Genre Shift Major Injury Underreaction Berserk Button Spared by the Adaptation Eureka Moment Suspiciously Specific Denial Ragtag Bunch of Misfits After the End Spiritual Successor My God, What Have I Done? 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Is Serious Business Fantasy Films Pretty in Mink Dying Moment of Awesome Adults Are Useless Evil Is Hammy Psycho for Hire '80s Hair Honor Before Reason La Résistance Taking You with Me Friend to All Children Papa Wolf Advertised Extra Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Kill It with Fire Fan Disservice Smoking Is Cool Anti-Villain Frame-Up Film Noir Crapsack World Animated Credits Opening In the Back Sole Survivor Villain Protagonist Death by Irony Blood from the Mouth Nice Guy Ascended Extra A God Am I Serious Business The Mole Unresolved Sexual Tension Blatant Lies Death by Adaptation Pragmatic Adaptation Obstructive Bureaucrat What You Are in the Dark Hong Kong Films Face Death with Dignity Roaring Rampage of Revenge Killed Mid-Sentence Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Unusually Uninteresting Sight Boom, Headshot! Accidental Murder Made of Iron Black Comedy Rape Actor Allusion Amoral Attorney Wretched Hive Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Chekhov's Gunman Crucified Hero Shot Chekhov's Skill Awesome, but Impractical Not So Above It All Karma Houdini Flashback Dies Wide Open Spell My Name with an "S" Zombie Stories Adorkable No Antagonist The Ace Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Canadian Movies Cold-Blooded Torture Badass in a Nice Suit "The Reason You Suck" Speech Psychopathic Manchild I Need a Freaking Drink Throwing Your Sword Always Works The Lost Lenore Guns Akimbo Hoist by His Own Petard Beard of Evil My Greatest Failure Alas, Poor Villain No Celebrities Were Harmed Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Visual Pun The Voiceless Totally Radical Handicapped Badass Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies The Alcoholic Hypocritical Humor A Date with Rosie Palms Evil-Detecting Dog Bond Villain Stupidity Cloudcuckoolander Our Vampires Are Different Half the Man He Used to Be Creator Cameo Dramatic Gun Cock Cluster F-Bomb Wham Shot Yandere Star-Crossed Lovers Country Matters Big "NO!" 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