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