Tropescilloscope: Cruel and Unusual Death

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

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