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