Tropescilloscope: Cruel and Unusual Death

An extremely painful, unpleasant, and humiliating way to die. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Our Zombies Are Different After the End Thriller Noodle Incident All There in the Manual Super Strength Smug Snake Straight Gay No Name Given Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday The Stinger Heroic Sacrifice Death by Sex Cat Scare Military and Warfare Films I Need a Freaking Drink Rasputinian Death Would Hit a Girl Casting Gag Framing Device Air-Vent Passageway Serial Killer Demoted to Extra Revenge Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Never My Fault Tap on the Head Henpecked Husband Stalker with a Crush Shipper on Deck For Want of a Nail Pyrrhic Victory Authority Equals Asskicking Small Name, Big Ego No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Flipping the Bird Crucified Hero Shot Rule of Cool Action Genre Disguised in Drag Demonic Possession Advertised Extra Enemy Mine Obviously Evil Killed Mid-Sentence Immune to Bullets Eureka Moment Well-Intentioned Extremist Adaptation Name Change Toplessness from the Back Leaning on the Fourth Wall Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Ass Shove Overprotective Dad Alpha Bitch Jitter Cam Bitch in Sheep's Clothing From Bad to Worse Cluster F-Bomb Anti-Hero Bavarian Fire Drill Decoy Protagonist Fainting Frame-Up Deus ex Machina Redshirt Army Suspiciously Specific Denial The Ace Gainax Ending It's All About Me Department of Redundancy Department Martial Arts Movie Bloodless Carnage Bound and Gagged N-Word Privileges Token Minority Dogged Nice Guy Face Death with Dignity Soundtrack Dissonance Big Bad Duumvirate Video Credits Armor-Piercing Question Closed Circle Drugs Are Bad Credits Gag Double Entendre Femme Fatale Evil vs. Evil Punch-Clock Villain Historical Hero Upgrade I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Stepford Smiler Cool Old Guy Does Not Like Shoes Beauty Is Never Tarnished Implacable Man Ghost Fiction In Medias Res Animal Motifs The Faceless Word of God Scare Chord Ax-Crazy Honor Before Reason Suddenly SHOUTING! The Mole I Have Your Wife Truth in Television Unusually Uninteresting Sight Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Woman Scorned All for Nothing Put on a Bus Cool Shades World of Ham Shown Their Work Shoot the Shaggy Dog Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Freeze-Frame Bonus Artistic License – Law Male Gaze Big-Bad Ensemble "Shaggy Dog" Story All Girls Want Bad Boys This Is Gonna Suck Properly Paranoid Kill 'em All Silent Movie The Lost Lenore Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Mind Screw Too Dumb to Live Take That! Heel Realization Russian Films Cool Car Black Comedy Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Victoria's Secret Compartment Not Using the "Z" Word Soft Glass Ripped from the Headlines Insane Troll Logic An Aesop Attempted Rape Idiot Ball My God, What Have I Done? Insult Backfire All Just a Dream Outrun the Fireball Insistent Terminology Bring My Brown Pants Posthumous Character Evil Laugh Only a Flesh Wound Shirtless Scene Mooks Eldritch Abomination Foil Character Development Facial Horror Flashback Mood Whiplash Off with His Head! Police are Useless Fan Disservice Bunny-Ears Lawyer Despair Event Horizon Intergenerational Friendship Redemption Equals Death Dull Surprise Rule of Three Coming-of-Age Story Informed Ability Five-Man Band Chekhov's Gun O.O.C. Is Serious Business Index of Film Westerns Eagleland It Will Never Catch On Determinator Playing Gertrude Foreshadowing Adult Fear War Is Hell Age Lift The Big Guy Motor Mouth Woman in White Screw the Rules, I Have Money! 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Downer Ending Gilligan Cut Bland-Name Product Actually Pretty Funny Important Haircut Neck Lift The Place Logo Joke Make It Look Like an Accident Dramatic Gun Cock Setting Update Adaptational Villainy And Starring Superhero Names to Run Away from Really Fast For the Evulz Retired Badass The Ghost Leitmotif Spared by the Adaptation Destination Defenestration Kick the Dog The Dog Bites Back Red Right Hand Gender Flip Storming the Castle Nice Hat Up to Eleven Made of Explodium Ms. Fanservice Extremely Short Timespan Adorkable Took a Level in Badass He Knows Too Much Evil Is Petty Sealed Evil in a Can Pragmatic Villainy A Minor Kidroduction Naked People Are Funny Danny Peary Cult Movies List Freudian Excuse Black Best Friend Slasher Smile Sacrificial Lion Boom, Headshot! 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