Tropescilloscope: Cruel and Unusual Death

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

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