Tropescilloscope: Death Seeker

A character wishes to die but can't simply kill him- or her-self. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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