Tropescilloscope: Famous Last Words

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

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