Tropescilloscope: Dies Wide Open

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

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