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