Tropescilloscope: Famous Last Words

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

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