Tropescilloscope: Famous Last Words

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

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