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