Tropescilloscope: Fate Worse than Death

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