Tropescilloscope: He Knows Too Much

He knows my secret: he must die. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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