Tropescilloscope: Fate Worse than Death

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