Tropescilloscope: Dies Wide Open

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

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From Bad to Worse Evil Laugh N-Word Privileges Body Horror Affectionate Parody Continuity Nod Wham Shot Artistic License – Physics Didn't Think This Through Slashed Throat Funny Foreigner Big "NO!" Needs Wiki Magic Love Obviously Evil 20 Minutes into the Future Cain and Abel Accidental Misnaming Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie All There in the Manual Defrosting Ice Queen Combat Pragmatist Action Prologue Disney Death Fire-Forged Friends Establishing Character Moment Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Alliterative Name Blackmail Freeze-Frame Bonus Abhorrent Admirer Mooks Animated Credits Opening Adaptational Attractiveness Knife Nut No-Holds-Barred Beatdown The Smart Guy Psychopathic Manchild No Ending The Alleged Car Index of Film Westerns Eldritch Abomination Villain Ball Together in Death Anti-Villain Damsel in Distress Deliberate Values Dissonance Ominous Latin Chanting Fatal Family Photo Eagleland The Power of Love Cat Scare Make It Look Like an Accident Pragmatic Adaptation Big Bad Duumvirate Kick the Son of a Bitch Small Name, Big Ego You Have Failed Me Depraved Bisexual Country Matters Epic Movie Adaptational Heroism Logo Joke Evil Is Hammy Taking the Bullet Sequel Escalation As You Know Eye Scream Composite Character French Films Not So Stoic Mistaken for Gay Meaningful Background Event Retired Badass Beware the Nice Ones May–December Romance Shoot the Shaggy Dog Hong Kong Films Tempting Fate Older Than They Look Italian Films Twist Ending The Stoner Advertised Extra Rule of Three Get Out! 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Fanservice Extra Amusing Injuries The '50s Due to the Dead Oh, Crap! Your Head A-Splode The Lost Lenore Crucified Hero Shot Killed Mid-Sentence A Date with Rosie Palms Disguised in Drag Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Chekhov's Skill Frame-Up Bare Your Midriff Hell Is That Noise Politically Incorrect Villain One-Word Title Karma Houdini Crapsack World Betty and Veronica Author Avatar Naïve Newcomer Demonic Possession Broken Bird Face Death with Dignity Those Two Bad Guys Laughing Mad Psychological Thriller Blatant Lies Plucky Comic Relief Foregone Conclusion Greater-Scope Villain Fatal Flaw Costume Porn Wounded Gazelle Gambit Contrived Coincidence Call-Forward Not What It Looks Like Jerkass Christmas Movies Index Imagine Spot Mercy Kill Scenery Porn Instant Death Bullet Half the Man He Used to Be Title Drop Naked People Are Funny Cool Old Lady Neck Snap Badass Longcoat Arch-Enemy Tap on the Head I'm a Humanitarian Properly Paranoid Skewed Priorities Stealth Pun Cassandra Truth Mama Bear La Résistance Almost Kiss Daddy's Girl Manipulative Bastard Gorn You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! 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Is a Crapshoot Made of Explodium Spell My Name with an "S" Idiot Ball Irony Dark Reprise Take That! Domestic Abuse Actually Pretty Funny Setting Update Science Fiction Films Spared by the Adaptation Zombie Stories Those Two Guys Historical Villain Upgrade Dropped a Bridge on Him Asshole Victim Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Did Not Get the Girl Morality Pet Smug Snake Dutch Angle Fantasy Films Room Full of Crazy Would Hurt a Child Super Strength Becoming the Mask Immune to Bullets Chase Scene Shell-Shocked Veteran Trailers Always Spoil Even Evil Has Standards Match Cut Guns Akimbo Handicapped Badass Moment Killer Yandere Never Trust a Trailer "The Reason You Suck" Speech Smoking Is Cool Rasputinian Death Fake Shemp The Stoic Abusive Parents Despair Event Horizon Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Villain Protagonist Bloodless Carnage Men Are the Expendable Gender Badass in a Nice Suit Brainless Beauty Reality Is Unrealistic Bilingual Bonus Gilligan Cut Spiteful Spit Kubrick Stare The Film of the Book Hypocritical Humor The Ditz Freudian Excuse The Ghost Here We Go Again! Rich Bitch Expository Hairstyle Change Re-Cut It's All About Me There Is No Kill Like Overkill Celebrity Paradox Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Dual Wielding Chewing the Scenery Faux Affably Evil Pretty in Mink All for Nothing Adaptational Villainy Vitriolic Best Buds Ms. Fanservice In the Back Death by Adaptation Self-Deprecation Agony of the Feet The Quiet One Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking World of Ham Pragmatic Villainy Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Driven to Suicide Implacable Man Car Fu Henpecked Husband Bloody Hilarious Silence Is Golden Beta Couple Distracted by the Sexy Five-Man Band The Oner Line-of-Sight Name Honor Before Reason I Have Your Wife Ship Tease Whole Plot Reference Grey and Gray Morality Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! 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Closed Circle Bond One-Liner Ripped from the Headlines Camp Gay Our Vampires Are Different Horror Films A God Am I Famous Last Words Offscreen Teleportation Informed Ability Amoral Attorney Soft Glass An Aesop Have a Gay Old Time Mighty Whitey Wham Line Posthumous Character Nice Hat Shut Up, Hannibal! Jitter Cam What You Are in the Dark Big Damn Heroes The Mole Hidden Depths Fish out of Water How We Got Here Deal with the Devil Heroes Want Redheads Good Is Not Nice Death of a Child Meaningful Echo Fanservice Improvised Weapon The End... Or Is It? 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Drives Like Crazy Foil Outrun the Fireball Shown Their Work Screw the Rules, I Have Money! 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Motor Mouth An Arm and a Leg Brick Joke Captain Ersatz Defiant to the End Based on a True Story Police are Useless Parental Neglect Rated M for Manly Anguished Declaration of Love Music Stories Leitmotif Heterosexual Life-Partners Grievous Bottley Harm Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Femme Fatale Cool Car Rape as Drama Artistic License – Geography Mr. Exposition Camera Abuse Pet the Dog Martial Arts Movie Obfuscating Stupidity Biopic Dark and Troubled Past Dramatic Irony Cloudcuckoolander Ambiguous Disorder The Reveal Historical-Domain Character Playing Gertrude Laser-Guided Karma All There in the Script Training Montage Soundtrack Dissonance Mind Screw Bloodier and Gorier Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Punctuated! For! Emphasis! True Companions Face–Heel Turn Big Fancy House What the Hell, Hero? Mundane Made Awesome Auto Erotica Neck Lift Extreme Doormat Off-into-the-Distance Ending Casting Gag Token Minority The Bully Tranquil Fury Man on Fire Product Placement Roaring Rampage of Revenge From Nobody to Nightmare Black Comedy Awesome, but Impractical Never Found the Body Disney Villain Death Reality Ensues He Who Fights Monsters Stock Footage Hate Sink The '80s Pyrrhic Victory A Father to His Men Hollywood Darkness Precision F-Strike My Greatest Failure Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience For Want of a Nail "Well Done, Son!" Guy folderlabel Villain with Good Publicity Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Visual Pun One Steve Limit Anyone Can Die Slasher Movie Evil Brit Funny Background Event Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Missing Mom Not Quite Dead Bad "Bad Acting" Empathic Environment Conspicuous CG In Name Only Redemption Equals Death And Starring As Himself Psycho for Hire Beauty Is Never Tarnished Major Injury Underreaction And I Must Scream Central Theme Sole Survivor Sadistic Choice Hair-Trigger Temper Action Genre Darkest Hour Tagline