Tropescilloscope: Fate Worse than Death

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

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