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