Tropescilloscope: Famous Last Words

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

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