Tropescilloscope: Dropped a Bridge on Him

An important character is killed off in a very abrupt, unceremonious way. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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