Tropescilloscope: Defiant to the End

A merciless villain gets no respect from a captive. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Posthumous Character Evil Plan Smoking Is Cool Action Genre Only One Name You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Neck Snap Affectionate Parody Beauty Is Never Tarnished Spiteful Spit Final Girl Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass N-Word Privileges Ship Tease One Steve Limit Taking the Bullet Match Cut Red Herring Green-Eyed Monster It Can Think Batman Gambit I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Translation Convention May–December Romance Laughing Mad Ghost Fiction The Reveal Foregone Conclusion Overly Long Gag Big Bad Time Skip Man on Fire Famous Last Words Horror Comedy Your Cheating Heart Woman Scorned Early-Bird Cameo Retirony Too Dumb to Live War Is Hell Super Strength Chase Scene Big Bad Duumvirate Costume Porn Heel–Face Turn What You Are in the Dark Dressing as the Enemy Villain Ball The Faceless Your Head A-Splode Rated M for Manly Creative Closing Credits Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Pretty Little Headshots Shoot the Shaggy Dog Mood Whiplash The Oner Roaring Rampage of Revenge Arranged Marriage Christmas Movies Index Darker and Edgier Spiritual Successor Cluster F-Bomb Award-Bait Song Neck Lift Took a Level in Badass Psychopathic Manchild After the End Silent Movie Evil Counterpart No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Daddy's Girl Mistaken for Gay Real Life Writes the Plot Adaptation Name Change An Axe to Grind Determinator Noodle Incident Stylistic Suck Dramatic Irony Idiot Ball There Is No Kill Like Overkill Mooks My Beloved Smother Anguished Declaration of Love The '80s Naked People Are Funny Jerk with a Heart of Gold Double-Meaning Title Rule of Cool The Dreaded Punny Name Male Gaze Rule of Symbolism Badass Bookworm Throwing Your Sword Always Works Beard of Evil Four-Temperament Ensemble Crazy-Prepared Room Full of Crazy All Just a Dream Gorn Back from the Dead Redemption Equals Death Leitmotif Brainless Beauty She Cleans Up Nicely Deal with the Devil Took a Level in Jerkass Left the Background Music On Actually Pretty Funny Cowboy Cop Call-Back Beware the Nice Ones Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Parental Incest Freudian Excuse Once More, with Clarity! Dramedy Offscreen Teleportation Faux Affably Evil Really Gets Around Mr. Fanservice Made of Explodium Market-Based Title Catch-Phrase Danny Peary Cult Movies List Insistent Terminology The '60s Australian Movies The Lost Lenore Even Evil Has Standards Accidental Murder Evil vs. Evil Bad "Bad Acting" The '90s Decoy Protagonist Serious Business Never Found the Body Fingore Thriller Hero Antagonist Sassy Black Woman The Voiceless Adaptation Expansion The Ghost Imagine Spot Drill Sergeant Nasty Closed Circle Retired Badass Soft Glass Big Damn Heroes Double Entendre Papa Wolf A God Am I The Sociopath My Greatest Failure Rewatch Bonus Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Every Car Is a Pinto Genre Throwback Animated Credits Opening Adapted Out Awesome, but Impractical The '50s Animal Title Index Those Two Guys Break the Cutie Manipulative Bastard Pragmatic Villainy Heterosexual Life-Partners Guile Hero Russian Films Epic Movie Rasputinian Death Genre Shift Abusive Parents Love Triangle And I Must Scream Hong Kong Films Madness Mantra Hero of Another Story The Chick Five-Man Band Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! 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Shipper on Deck Slashed Throat Sci-Fi Horror Dark and Troubled Past The Load Lampshade Hanging As Himself From Nobody to Nightmare Martial Arts Movie Defiant to the End Historical-Domain Character Adaptation Distillation Evil-Detecting Dog Auto Erotica Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Aside Glance La Résistance Up to Eleven Guns Akimbo Action Prologue Face Death with Dignity An Arm and a Leg One-Word Title Immune to Bullets Kill 'em All Combat Pragmatist Improbable Weapon User Implacable Man For Want of a Nail Cruel and Unusual Death Men Are the Expendable Gender Faking the Dead Unwitting Instigator of Doom Informed Ability Stealth Pun The Smurfette Principle Broken Bird Deliberate Values Dissonance Asshole Victim Central Theme Does Not Like Shoes Narrator Yandere Here We Go Again! Visual Pun Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! 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Villain Protagonist Karma Houdini Actor Allusion Anti-Hero The Ace And Starring How We Got Here Stalker with a Crush Sports Stories Frame-Up Motor Mouth Malevolent Masked Men Comically Missing the Point Crucified Hero Shot No Antagonist Large Ham Evil Is Petty Sole Survivor Nice Hat Love at First Sight Anachronism Stew Big Fancy House Slasher Smile Villain with Good Publicity Reasonable Authority Figure Toplessness from the Back Skewed Priorities Our Zombies Are Different The Chessmaster Only Known by Their Nickname Stock Footage Very Loosely Based on a True Story Red Oni, Blue Oni Fatal Flaw As You Know Dies Wide Open Bloodier and Gorier The Stoic From Bad to Worse Hypocrite Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Playing Gertrude Shell-Shocked Veteran Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Meet Cute All There in the Manual Token Minority No Name Given Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Moment Killer The Bad Guy Wins Flashback Bi the Way Flipping the Bird Crazy Jealous Guy Ascended Extra Defrosting Ice Queen A Date with Rosie Palms Drugs Are Bad Bond Villain Stupidity Shirtless Scene Bowdlerise Oh, Crap! Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Heroic BSoD Eyepatch of Power Music Stories Amoral Attorney Anachronic Order The '70s Well-Intentioned Extremist Hypocritical Humor Romantic Comedy Stepford Smiler Spanner in the Works Author Appeal Blatant Lies Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Jump Scare Married to the Job Dirty Cop Black and Gray Morality Hate Sink Knight Templar BFG Red Right Hand Depraved Bisexual Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Apocalypse How Romantic False Lead True Companions Car Fu Soundtrack Dissonance Not Even Bothering with the Accent She's Got Legs Adaptation Dye-Job Badass Boast All Girls Want Bad Boys Nice Guy Same Language Dub Captain Ersatz Bullying a Dragon German Films Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Cool Old Lady Historical In-Joke Jerkass Has a Point Gender Flip Scary Black Man Friend to All Children Rule of Funny Creator Cameo Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Logo Joke Dutch Angle Star-Crossed Lovers Ax-Crazy Artistic License – Physics Pretty in Mink Blackmail '80s Hair Parental Abandonment Self-Deprecation MacGuffin Revenge Jerk Jock I Need a Freaking Drink Disproportionate Retribution Despair Event Horizon Handicapped Badass Based on a True Story Novelization Contrived Coincidence Obstructive Bureaucrat Shout-Out Only in It for the Money Irony Word of God Dramatic Gun Cock Disney Villain Death Naïve Newcomer Humiliation Conga Fire-Forged Friends Brick Joke Honor Before Reason Reality Is Unrealistic Obfuscating Stupidity Big-Bad Ensemble Only Sane Man Continuity Nod Sir Swears-a-Lot Needs Wiki Magic Love Cool Guns Beta Couple The Place Wounded Gazelle Gambit Pet the Dog Artistic License – Law Becoming the Mask Shut Up, Hannibal! Older Than They Look Alas, Poor Villain Damsel in Distress Hair-Trigger Temper Authority Equals Asskicking The Cameo Dissonant Serenity The Film of the Book "Shaggy Dog" Story Destination Defenestration Precision F-Strike Overprotective Dad Dumb Blonde Slap-Slap-Kiss Artistic License – Biology Armor-Piercing Question Improbable Aiming Skills In Name Only Artistic License – Gun Safety Happily Married Aluminum Christmas Trees Face–Heel Turn Rousing Speech Reality Has No Subtitles Kubrick Stare Truth in Television Blood from the Mouth The Hero Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Outrun the Fireball Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Call-Forward Setting Update My God, What Have I Done? 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Early Installment Weirdness Names to Run Away from Really Fast Eureka Moment Mystery and Detective Films Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Cold-Blooded Torture Determinator aka: The Determinator Mad Scientist Artistic License – Military Exactly What It Says on the Tin Big Applesauce World of Ham Hollywood Darkness Big Eater Suspiciously Specific Denial Fat Bastard Rule of Three Major Injury Underreaction Death by Irony Foil Animal Motifs Unusually Uninteresting Sight Affably Evil Deadpan Snarker Abhorrent Admirer Gilligan Cut The Mole Fanservice Extra Berserk Button Our Vampires Are Different No-Sell Cool Old Guy Action Girl Film Series Not So Different Get Out! Mundane Made Awesome Sequel Escalation As Long as It Sounds Foreign Parental Substitute Mercy Kill Enemy Mine Fiery Redhead Sanity Slippage NO INDOOR VOICE Twist Ending Bare Your Midriff It's All About Me timeperiod The Atoner Antagonist Title Dogged Nice Guy Leaning on the Fourth Wall Meaningful Background Event Historical Hero Upgrade Non-Indicative Name "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue The Alleged Car Bury Your Gays Camp Gay It's Personal Fourth Date Marriage The Stinger Wham Line Refuge in Audacity Wrong Genre Savvy Vacation Films Crapsack World Instant Death Bullet Fate Worse than Death One-Man Army Drives Like Crazy Make It Look Like an Accident Evil Brit The Un-Reveal You Killed My Father Off-into-the-Distance Ending Breaking the Fourth Wall Artistic License – Geography Casting Gag Bavarian Fire Drill Jitter Cam Chewing the Scenery Better to Die than Be Killed Sacrificial Lion Cool Shades Sinister Minister Tap on the Head Exact Words The Starscream The Musical Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Bittersweet Ending Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Not So Above It All Mr. Exposition Wham Shot Villain Opening Scene Loads and Loads of Characters Film Noir Unresolved Sexual Tension The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Heel Realization Amusing Injuries Whole Plot Reference Biopic Killed Mid-Sentence Ambiguous Ending Age Lift Death by Adaptation Broken Aesop Downer Ending Red Shirt Woman in White Intergenerational Friendship Film Noir Index Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Not So Stoic Adaptational Heroism For the Evulz Last-Name Basis The Remake Tranquil Fury The Alcoholic Ass Shove Dying Moment of Awesome The Power of Love Red Eyes, Take Warning The Lancer Death Glare Random Events Plot All for Nothing Daylight Horror Dull Surprise Kids Are Cruel Off with His Head! British Films Rich Bitch A Minor Kidroduction Babies Ever After Betty and Veronica Henpecked Husband Say My Name