Tropescilloscope: Dying Moment of Awesome

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

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