Tropescilloscope: He Knows Too Much

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

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