Tropescilloscope: Famous Last Words

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

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