Tropescilloscope: He Knows Too Much

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

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