Tropescilloscope: Fate Worse than Death

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