Tropescilloscope: Fate Worse than Death

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

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