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