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