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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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
BrotherSister 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
MayDecember 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
HeelFace 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
FaceHeel 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
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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