Tropescilloscope: He Knows Too Much

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

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