Tropescilloscope: Famous Last Words

What you say before you croak. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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