Tropescilloscope: Famous Last Words

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

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