Tropescilloscope: Dies Wide Open

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

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