Tropescilloscope: Fate Worse than Death

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