Tropescilloscope: Dies Wide Open

A character dies with their eyes open. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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