Tropescilloscope: Fate Worse than Death

Death isn't the worst thing to happen to you. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Is a Crapshoot Antagonist Title Insistent Terminology Extreme Doormat Freudian Excuse Big Applesauce Red Right Hand One-Man Army Easily Forgiven Stealth Pun Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Never My Fault Arc Words Darkest Hour Novelization Shirtless Scene Ghost Fiction The Reveal Chekhov's Skill Wham Line Those Two Guys Femme Fatale Eureka Moment Dutch Angle As You Know Naked People Are Funny Brainless Beauty Large Ham Posthumous Character No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Outrun the Fireball Race Against the Clock Room Full of Crazy Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Defiant to the End Babies Ever After Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil There Is No Kill Like Overkill Genre Savvy The Chessmaster Creator Cameo Kubrick Stare Danny Peary Cult Movies List Artistic License – Military Based on a True Story Evil Laugh Peek-a-Boo Corpse Animal Motifs Breaking the Fourth Wall Oh, Crap! Genre Shift Index of Film Westerns Belligerent Sexual Tension Intrepid Reporter Truth in Television All Men Are Perverts Sinister Minister Would Hit a Girl Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Obstructive Bureaucrat Mad Scientist Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Anachronic Order Manly Tears Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Unusually Uninteresting Sight Works Set in World War II Names to Run Away from Really Fast Mooks Stylistic Suck B-Movie Chase Scene Love at First Sight Pragmatic Adaptation Badass Bookworm Wham Shot Does This Remind You of Anything? Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Dirty Cop Rasputinian Death Whole Plot Reference Romantic Comedy One Steve Limit Eldritch Abomination Action Genre Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Asshole Victim Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Pet the Dog Captain Ersatz Laughing Mad Getting Crap Past the Radar Catapult Nightmare May–December Romance Black and Gray Morality Product Placement Combat Pragmatist Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Rape as Drama And the Adventure Continues Frame-Up Male Frontal Nudity Papa Wolf Gratuitous English Auto Erotica The Smurfette Principle Black Comedy Rape Malevolent Masked Men Shell-Shocked Veteran Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Kick the Son of a Bitch An Arm and a Leg Badass Boast Unresolved Sexual Tension Twist Ending Get Out! Big Bad Duumvirate Mistaken for Gay Madness Mantra You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Fourth Date Marriage Morality Pet Extremely Short Timespan Psychological Thriller Unwitting Instigator of Doom Black Best Friend Improbable Weapon User Humiliation Conga Vomit Indiscretion Shot Cluster F-Bomb Animated Credits Opening Totally Radical Only a Flesh Wound Jerk with a Heart of Gold Alpha Bitch Mythology Gag Cool Car The '60s Evil Is Petty Shower Scene Eiffel Tower Effect Nothing Is Scarier Those Two Bad Guys This Is Gonna Suck Token Minority Vitriolic Best Buds Final Girl The Faceless Real Life Writes the Plot Death Seeker Psychopathic Manchild Dies Wide Open The Hero Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Ominous Latin Chanting Music Stories Punch-Clock Villain The Lost Lenore British Films Bottomless Magazines Cruel and Unusual Death Be Careful What You Wish For Broken Aesop Title Drop Never Found the Body Rule of Funny Yandere The Film of the Book Pretty in Mink The Alcoholic Refuge in Audacity Drill Sergeant Nasty Ambiguous Ending Adorkable Lighter and Softer Daylight Horror Romantic False Lead Karma Houdini Artistic License – Biology Department of Redundancy Department Beard of Evil Insane Troll Logic Arch-Enemy Take That! 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Guy Red Shirt Plot Hole Hypocrite Visual Pun Deliberate Values Dissonance Line-of-Sight Name A Date with Rosie Palms An Axe to Grind Mr. Exposition Worthy Opponent Grievous Bottley Harm Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Unusual Euphemism Reality Has No Subtitles Scary Black Man Time Skip French Films Parental Abandonment Downer Ending Villain Song Chekhov's Gun Animal Title Index Air-Vent Passageway The X of Y Very Loosely Based on a True Story Retcon Jerkass Market-Based Title After the End Reasonable Authority Figure Accidental Murder Laser-Guided Karma Drives Like Crazy Documentary Not Using the "Z" Word "Shaggy Dog" Story Gender Flip No Name Given Distracted by the Sexy A Minor Kidroduction Butt-Monkey Death by Sex Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Riddle for the Ages Manchild Bi the Way Artistic License – Gun Safety Cool Guns Aluminum Christmas Trees No OSHA Compliance Mr. Fanservice Scenery Gorn The Chick Say My Name It's All About Me Break the Cutie The Bully Happily Married Undying Loyalty Badass Normal Make It Look Like an Accident Lock and Load Montage Married to the Job A Father to His Men Developing Doomed Characters Up to Eleven Hero of Another Story Fantasy Films Film Noir Index Mood Whiplash Dying Moment of Awesome Fan Disservice The Hero Dies Dropped a Bridge on Him Dramedy Villain with Good Publicity Missing Mom Shout-Out Parental Substitute Batman Gambit Creative Closing Credits Henpecked Husband The Un-Reveal Depraved Bisexual Christmas Movies Index Epic Fail The '50s Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Coming-of-Age Story Spiteful Spit My God, What Have I Done? Tempting Fate Military and Warfare Films I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Handicapped Badass Chiaroscuro Boom, Headshot! 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Ax-Crazy Running Gag Random Events Plot Bound and Gagged Leaning on the Fourth Wall Important Haircut Crazy Jealous Guy Public Domain Feature Films Loads and Loads of Characters Dark Reprise Disney Death An Aesop Neck Lift Suspiciously Specific Denial Red Oni, Blue Oni Interrupted Suicide Faux Affably Evil Redshirt Army Informed Ability Foil Smug Snake Call-Back Parental Incest Bring My Brown Pants Cat Fight Bar Brawl Mighty Whitey Poor Communication Kills Composite Character Precision F-Strike Only Known by Their Nickname Japanese Films Russian Films Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Only Sane Man Sexy Discretion Shot Broken Pedestal Suddenly SHOUTING! Rule of Three Ms. Fanservice Black Dude Dies First All Just a Dream "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Sequel Hook Famous Last Words Abhorrent Admirer Overprotective Dad Off-into-the-Distance Ending Anguished Declaration of Love Aww, Look! 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You Killed My Father Match Cut Corrupt Corporate Executive Continuity Nod Adaptational Heroism Adaptational Villainy Woman Scorned Recycled IN SPACE! From Bad to Worse Bait-and-Switch Car Fu Dull Surprise Alliterative Name Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Jump Scare Captain Obvious Paper-Thin Disguise Hollywood Law Imagine Spot Ambiguously Gay Sports Stories Exactly What It Says on the Tin Casting Gag Rule of Symbolism The Ghost Off with His Head! 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