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