Tropescilloscope: Cruel and Unusual Death

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

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Villainous Breakdown Historical Hero Upgrade Aside Glance Shell-Shocked Veteran Sci-Fi Horror Kubrick Stare Our Vampires Are Different Affably Evil From Bad to Worse Heroic BSoD What the Hell, Hero? Naked People Are Funny Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Ax-Crazy Big Brother Instinct Badass in a Nice Suit Real Life Writes the Plot Dramedy Cool Guns Bowdlerise Hooker with a Heart of Gold Scenery Porn Parental Substitute The Dreaded Cluster F-Bomb Determinator In Name Only Big Applesauce Creator Cameo Chekhov's Gun What Happened to the Mouse? 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Artistic License – Military Eureka Moment Pimped-Out Dress Psychopathic Manchild Attempted Rape Breaking the Fourth Wall Cool Car It Will Never Catch On Improvised Weapon Jerkass I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Fatal Family Photo Translation Convention Bi the Way Badass Boast Male Frontal Nudity Authority Equals Asskicking True Companions Very Loosely Based on a True Story Expy Suspiciously Similar Substitute Easily Forgiven Unwitting Instigator of Doom Artistic License – Physics Heel Realization Epic Movie Exact Words Arc Words Early Installment Weirdness Driven to Suicide Wham Line Bare Your Midriff May–December Romance Fat Bastard Department of Redundancy Department Hollywood Law No Antagonist And the Adventure Continues O.O.C. Is Serious Business Flashback Stepford Smiler Tap on the Head The Reveal Guile Hero Manchild Crazy Jealous Guy Berserk Button Throwing Your Sword Always Works Failed a Spot Check The Smart Guy From Nobody to Nightmare Moment Killer Death by Adaptation Badass Bookworm Pay Evil unto Evil Unreliable Narrator More Dakka Bittersweet Ending Exactly What It Says on the Tin Evil-Detecting Dog As Himself Riddle for the Ages Those Two Bad Guys Author Appeal Get Out! Sealed Evil in a Can Slasher Movie Not So Different Bond One-Liner Maybe Ever After Spared by the Adaptation Darker and Edgier Hell Is That Noise Lock and Load Montage Brick Joke Italian Films Camera Abuse Daddy's Girl No Ending Obstructive Bureaucrat Bond Villain Stupidity Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Spiritual Successor Everyone Has Standards Even Evil Has Loved Ones Mr. Fanservice Gender Flip Punny Name Stuff Blowing Up Eyepatch of Power Kill 'em All Determinator aka: The Determinator Recycled IN SPACE! Artistic License – Gun Safety Defiant to the End Twist Ending Wounded Gazelle Gambit Historical In-Joke Karma Houdini Off with His Head! The Hero Almost Kiss The Atoner Anti-Villain Took a Level in Jerkass The Mafia Red Shirt Would Hit a Girl British Films Call-Back Hope Spot Cowboy Cop Mama Bear Decoy Protagonist Brainless Beauty The Lancer Have a Gay Old Time Not What It Looks Like Love at First Sight Deconstruction Bloodier and Gorier Kill It with Fire "Awesome McCool" Name Mad Scientist Apocalypse How Super Strength Crapsack World Not So Above It All The Un-Reveal Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Betty and Veronica Accidental Misnaming Television Movie Index Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Slasher Smile Advertised Extra Only Sane Man Papa Wolf Non-Indicative Name Didn't Think This Through Once More, with Clarity! Jerkass Has a Point Pretty Little Headshots Ghost Fiction Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Interrupted Suicide Rated M for Manly The Stinger Real Life Hate Sink Fanservice Extra Rule of Symbolism Film Noir Index Canadian Movies Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Only One Name Vomit Indiscretion Shot Nothing Is Scarier Facial Horror Broken Aesop I Have Your Wife Ambiguously Gay Mystery and Detective Films Meaningful Background Event Christmas Movies Index Punctuated! For! Emphasis! 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Sassy Black Woman Unspoken Plan Guarantee Precision F-Strike Genre Shift Four-Temperament Ensemble Trailers Always Spoil Card-Carrying Villain Bad "Bad Acting" Say My Name Rich Bitch Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Femme Fatale Funny Foreigner Loophole Abuse Pragmatic Adaptation Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Kids Are Cruel Man on Fire Rule of Cool Red Herring Homage Film Series Demoted to Extra Closed Circle Overprotective Dad Evil Laugh Animated Credits Opening Death of a Child Air-Vent Passageway Retired Badass Parental Incest Dies Wide Open Shut Up, Hannibal! Sanity Slippage Adults Are Useless Motor Mouth Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Anachronic Order Adaptation Dye-Job Unusual Euphemism German Films As Long as It Sounds Foreign Heel–Face Turn Ironic Echo War Is Hell Film Noir One-Word Title Shipper on Deck Abhorrent Admirer Bullying a Dragon Beauty Is Never Tarnished Did Not Get the Girl Nice Guy Funny Background Event Costume Porn "Well Done, Son!" Guy Our Zombies Are Different Framing Device Shown Their Work Crazy-Prepared Vacation Films Dressing as the Enemy Damsel in Distress Chekhov's Skill Arch-Enemy Rape as Drama Sequel Hook No Name Given No Celebrities Were Harmed Works Set in World War II Beware the Nice Ones Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Pyrrhic Victory Obfuscating Stupidity Revenge Establishing Character Moment Light Is Not Good Re-Cut Deal with the Devil No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Hypocritical Humor Jerk with a Heart of Gold Retirony Red Eyes, Take Warning All Girls Want Bad Boys Bring My Brown Pants Toplessness from the Back Grievous Bottley Harm Stealth Hi/Bye Anyone Can Die Up to Eleven Mythology Gag The Load Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Evil Sounds Deep Vitriolic Best Buds Major Injury Underreaction Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Hero Antagonist Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Blood Knight Action Survivor Shirtless Scene Scary Black Man Eagleland The Ditz Zombie Stories Bolivian Army Ending Evil Is Petty The '90s Adaptation Name Change Here We Go Again! Silence Is Golden Men Are the Expendable Gender No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Camp Gay NO INDOOR VOICE Ungrateful Bastard You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Punch-Clock Villain Depraved Bisexual Curse Cut Short Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Cool Shades Bald of Evil N-Word Privileges La Résistance Insistent Terminology Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Bloody Hilarious The Place Blonde, Brunette, Redhead The Voiceless Reality Has No Subtitles Double-Meaning Title Character Development "The Reason You Suck" Speech Artistic License – Biology Does This Remind You of Anything? Ripped from the Headlines Award-Bait Song Sacrificial Lion Noodle Incident Outrun the Fireball Cruel and Unusual Death Diabolus ex Machina Bitch in Sheep's Clothing The Alleged Car He Who Fights Monsters Not Using the "Z" Word Playing Gertrude After the End Fatal Flaw Protagonist Title French Films Hong Kong Films The Chessmaster Reality Is Unrealistic Composite Character Cool Old Guy Serial Killer Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Brutal Honesty Shout-Out Distracted by the Sexy She's Got Legs You Have Failed Me Insane Troll Logic Thriller Rasputinian Death Wretched Hive Laughing Mad Rewatch Bonus I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Deadpan Snarker The Bully Dirty Coward Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Getting Crap Past the Radar Coming-of-Age Story Japanese Films Dramatic Irony Comically Missing the Point Downer Ending Better to Die than Be Killed The Power of Love Drugs Are Bad Whole Plot Reference Disney Villain Death Age Lift Darkest Hour Your Cheating Heart Broken Pedestal Smoking Is Cool The End... 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Epilogue The '60s A Father to His Men The Stoic Fake Shemp Adult Fear Calling the Old Man Out Corrupt Corporate Executive Imagine Spot Dumb Blonde Ship Tease Empathic Environment Artistic License – Geography As You Know Dramatic Gun Cock Jerk Jock Horror Comedy Blackmail Running Gag Refuge in Audacity Hypocrite Wicked Cultured Dark and Troubled Past BFG Hero of Another Story Slap-Slap-Kiss Karmic Death Evil vs. Evil Scenery Gorn The Remake Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Anti-Hero Historical Villain Upgrade For the Evulz Leaning on the Fourth Wall Random Events Plot Evil Is Hammy Big Fancy House The Stoner Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Continuity Nod Undying Loyalty Mighty Whitey Rule of Three Fourth Date Marriage The Alcoholic Fantastic Racism Not Quite Dead Setting Update The Film of the Book Belligerent Sexual Tension Auto Erotica Covers Always Lie Death by Irony Cool Old Lady Cold-Blooded Torture Author Avatar The Cameo Famous Last Words Mr. Exposition Flipping the Bird The Cavalry Gold Digger Pre-Asskicking One-Liner No-Sell Fainting Ass Shove Overly Long Gag Actually Pretty Funny All There in the Manual The '70s Mexican Standoff Mundane Made Awesome Extreme Doormat Logo Joke Heroes Want Redheads Narrator Villain with Good Publicity Manly Tears Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy The X of Y Adaptational Attractiveness Roaring Rampage of Revenge Babies Ever After Take a Third Option Sadistic Choice Too Dumb to Live Big Bad Duumvirate The Musical Victoria's Secret Compartment Dark Action Girl Humiliation Conga Rule of Funny Bury Your Gays Becoming the Mask Historical-Domain Character Psycho for Hire Match Cut Oh, Crap! Epic Fail Obviously Evil Sexy Discretion Shot Yandere Politically Incorrect Villain Groin Attack Dwindling Party Adaptation Distillation Stealth Pun Paper-Thin Disguise Based on a True Story Mood Whiplash Bar Brawl Danny Peary Cult Movies List Blatant Lies Disproportionate Retribution Black Dude Dies First Happily Married Chewing the Scenery Woman in White Show Within a Show Cain and Abel Anguished Declaration of Love Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Villain Opening Scene Half the Man He Used to Be Suddenly SHOUTING! Market-Based Title Does Not Like Shoes Anachronism Stew Would Hurt a Child Break the Cutie Mooks Offscreen Teleportation Beard of Evil Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Word of God Irony Fate Worse than Death The Lost Lenore Tagline Faking the Dead Bait-and-Switch Male Gaze Death by Sex Loads and Loads of Characters Accidental Murder Leave the Camera Running Creative Closing Credits Adaptational Heroism Car Fu Children Are Innocent Amusing Injuries Documentary Insult Backfire Truth in Television The Faceless The Sociopath Daylight Horror You Killed My Father Casting Gag Dropped a Bridge on Him A.I. Is a Crapshoot Friend to All Children Credits Gag Pet the Dog The Starscream Same Language Dub Taking You with Me Training Montage Military and Warfare Films Abusive Parents One-Man Army Black Comedy Rape Bloodless Carnage Corpsing B-Movie Parental Neglect Green-Eyed Monster Fiery Redhead Final Girl Demonic Possession Fish out of Water Big Bad Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Made of Explodium Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Informed Ability Fun with Acronyms Agony of the Feet One Steve Limit Frame-Up Eye Scream Gilligan Cut Lighter and Softer Scare Chord Action Girl Intergenerational Friendship Ms. Fanservice Alas, Poor Villain Storming the Castle The Hero Dies Index of Film Westerns Domestic Abuse folderlabel Big "NO!" Left the Background Music On In Medias Res Morality Pet Creepy Child Manipulative Bastard Red Right Hand Death Seeker Heroic Sacrifice Bound and Gagged It Can Think Immune to Bullets Bland-Name Product Disappeared Dad Arranged Marriage Be Careful What You Wish For As the Good Book Says... Video Credits Nice Hat A Minor Kidroduction Title Drop Sequel Escalation Developing Doomed Characters Sole Survivor Jitter Cam Self-Deprecation Posthumous Character Freudian Excuse Due to the Dead Freeze-Frame Bonus Break the Haughty Taking the Bullet Fan Disservice Bilingual Bonus Plot Hole Off-into-the-Distance Ending All for Nothing Humans Are Bastards Body Horror Slashed Throat Sports Stories Hoist by His Own Petard Chase Scene Face–Heel Turn Russian Films Action Prologue Well-Intentioned Extremist Reality Ensues Take That! Not Even Bothering with the Accent 20 Minutes into the Future Stalker with a Crush Affectionate Parody Cloudcuckoolander Genre Throwback Gory Discretion Shot Dark Reprise Badass Normal Visual Pun The Oner Missing Mom Amoral Attorney Romantic Comedy Dirty Old Man Dissonant Serenity Stock Footage Superhero Meet Cute Smug Snake Last-Name Basis Adaptational Villainy Reasonable Authority Figure '80s Hair Canon Foreigner Mistaken for Gay