Tropescilloscope: Dies Wide Open

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

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