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