Tropescilloscope: Fate Worse than Death

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