Tropescilloscope: Famous Last Words

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

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