Tropescilloscope: Instant Death Bullet

One bullet makes you drop dead. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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