Tropescilloscope: Dying Moment of Awesome

A character's death, or specifically, how they die, stands out as completely awesome. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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