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