Tropescilloscope: Face Death with Dignity

A doomed character accepts their death with serenity. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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