Tropescilloscope: He Knows Too Much

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

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