Tropescilloscope: Instant Death Bullet

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

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Bloodless Carnage Made of Explodium Throwing Your Sword Always Works Truth in Television She's Got Legs Evil-Detecting Dog Straight Gay The Big Guy Not So Stoic Dirty Old Man Arc Words Mind Screw Would Hit a Girl No Good Deed Goes Unpunished As the Good Book Says... Closed Circle Not Using the "Z" Word Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Funny Background Event Death by Irony The Stinger Card-Carrying Villain And I Must Scream Spiteful Spit He Knows Too Much Creepy Child Continuity Nod Combat Pragmatist Unspoken Plan Guarantee Adapted Out You Killed My Father Adults Are Useless Freudian Excuse Implacable Man Not Even Bothering with the Accent Film Noir Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Drill Sergeant Nasty Break the Haughty Offscreen Teleportation Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Vampire Fiction Big Applesauce Annoying Younger Sibling Ghost Fiction Soft Glass The Dreaded Daddy's Girl Red Shirt Romantic False Lead Logo Joke Television Movie Index Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Immune to Bullets Major Injury Underreaction Horror Films Empathic Environment The Place Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Action Survivor Cool Shades timeperiod Bald of Evil Retcon Death by Adaptation "Well Done, Son!" Guy Expository Hairstyle Change Meaningful Name Abusive Parents Meet Cute Pyrrhic Victory Sci-Fi Horror The Alcoholic Took a Level in Badass The X of Y Dark Is Not Evil Hero of Another Story Mugging the Monster I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Trailers Always Spoil As Long as It Sounds Foreign Five-Man Band Cassandra Truth Mystery and Detective Films Beware the Nice Ones Anachronism Stew Wretched Hive Redemption Equals Death Film Noir Index Psychological Thriller Fiery Redhead Getting Crap Past the Radar Determinator Adaptation Dye-Job Thriller Demonic Possession Flashback Non-Indicative Name Adaptation Name Change Action Girl Bowdlerise Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Nice Hat Dirty Coward Department of Redundancy Department Car Fu Killed Mid-Sentence Comically Missing the Point The Quiet One Green-Eyed Monster Refuge in Audacity Chekhov's Gun Cool Old Lady Naïve Newcomer Covers Always Lie Once More, with Clarity! 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Epilogue Cool Car Historical Villain Upgrade Retirony Actor Allusion Kick the Son of a Bitch Nice Guy Bond Villain Stupidity The Cameo Children Are Innocent Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome In Name Only Stuff Blowing Up Heroic BSoD Chuck Cunningham Syndrome A Father to His Men Curb-Stomp Battle Cat Fight Oh, Crap! Wrong Genre Savvy Bad Boss Mighty Whitey Dark and Troubled Past Bullying a Dragon From Bad to Worse The Chick Abhorrent Admirer Disguised in Drag Pet the Dog Taking the Bullet One Steve Limit Suspiciously Specific Denial Final Girl Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Pretty Little Headshots Parental Substitute This Is Gonna Suck Boom, Headshot! Soundtrack Dissonance Spiritual Successor Black Dude Dies First The Atoner Corrupt Corporate Executive Arranged Marriage Slashed Throat Spell My Name with an "S" The '90s The Starscream Crapsack World Determinator aka: The Determinator Costume Porn Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Fanservice The Dog Bites Back Martial Arts Movie Papa Wolf Heroes Want Redheads Fire-Forged Friends Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Antagonist Title Death of a Child The Stoner Age Lift Wham Shot The Ditz Brutal Honesty Irony Rule of Cool Sports Stories Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! All There in the Manual Back from the Dead Would Hurt a Child Motor Mouth Disney Death Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Rule of Symbolism Belligerent Sexual Tension The Remake Narrator Brainless Beauty Honor Before Reason Leave the Camera Running Imagine Spot Rated M for Manly Extreme Doormat Obviously Evil An Axe to Grind Improbable Aiming Skills Evil Is Petty Celebrity Paradox Cloudcuckoolander British Films The Dragon Silence Is Golden Faux Affably Evil Four-Temperament Ensemble Does Not Like Shoes Vitriolic Best Buds The '80s The Bad Guy Wins You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Easily Forgiven Evil Laugh The Film of the Book Fan Disservice Foreshadowing Does This Remind You of Anything? 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They Really Do Love Each Other Villain Ball Henpecked Husband Butt-Monkey No Celebrities Were Harmed Meaningful Background Event Same Language Dub Unusually Uninteresting Sight Ominous Latin Chanting Every Car Is a Pinto It Can Think Downer Ending Hair-Trigger Temper Enemy Mine Nothing Is Scarier I Need a Freaking Drink Beard of Evil Black Comedy Self-Deprecation Naked People Are Funny No-Sell Morality Pet Genre Throwback The Hero Manchild Bait-and-Switch Gender Flip Ripped from the Headlines Hong Kong Films Berserk Button Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? 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Reality Has No Subtitles Even Evil Has Standards Stylistic Suck Distracted by the Sexy Corpsing Canon Foreigner The Reveal NO INDOOR VOICE Dying Moment of Awesome Love at First Sight The Mafia Overly Long Gag All Men Are Perverts Laser-Guided Karma Well-Intentioned Extremist Based on a True Story Blatant Lies Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" All for Nothing Anti-Villain Sacrificial Lion Villain Song Madness Mantra Gilligan Cut Stock Footage Real Life Kubrick Stare Kick the Dog Knife Nut Eye Scream Bare Your Midriff Sequel Escalation Badass Bookworm Historical Hero Upgrade Video Credits Dramedy Deconstruction Amoral Attorney Sealed Evil in a Can Body Horror Rule of Funny One-Word Title As You Know Facial Horror Dogged Nice Guy Cruel and Unusual Death The Alleged Car Undying Loyalty Happily Married World of Ham Room Full of Crazy Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Unreliable Narrator Suddenly SHOUTING! Dumb Blonde Shown Their Work Becoming the Mask The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Yandere Framing Device No OSHA Compliance Attempted Rape Rousing Speech Meaningful Echo Author Appeal Posthumous Character Hate Sink Eldritch Abomination Award-Bait Song For Want of a Nail Gone Horribly Right Noodle Incident Anyone Can Die A Minor Kidroduction Woman Scorned Air-Vent Passageway Paper-Thin Disguise Driven to Suicide Cluster F-Bomb Fingore Mad Scientist Badass in a Nice Suit Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Rape as Drama Mercy Kill MacGuffin Catapult Nightmare Disappeared Dad Taking You with Me Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Market-Based Title Ass Shove Alliterative Name Evil Cannot Comprehend Good An Aesop What the Hell, Hero? Police Brutality Jerkass Has a Point Ambiguous Disorder Exact Words Due to the Dead Foregone Conclusion Fanservice Extra Monumental Damage Eureka Moment Sir Swears-a-Lot Establishing Character Moment Mood Whiplash Rewatch Bonus Hollywood Law Red Right Hand Hoist by His Own Petard Gory Discretion Shot Adaptational Villainy Good Is Not Nice Bilingual Bonus '80s Hair B-Movie Those Two Guys Off-into-the-Distance Ending Artistic License – Geography Adult Fear Double-Meaning Title Not So Above It All Really Gets Around Show Within a Show The Stoic Stealth Hi/Bye Bloody Hilarious Fatal Family Photo Creator Cameo Slasher Smile Line-of-Sight Name Cat Scare No Antagonist Outrun the Fireball Too Dumb to Live Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Big Brother Instinct Playing Gertrude Names to Run Away from Really Fast Kill It with Fire N-Word Privileges Alpha Bitch Sole Survivor Bring My Brown Pants Whole Plot Reference Action Prologue No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Hidden Depths No Name Given Villain with Good Publicity Dissonant Serenity Artistic License – Military I'm a Humanitarian Fantasy Films Casting Gag Maybe Ever After Catch-Phrase Camp Gay A.I. Is a Crapshoot Tagline Hero Antagonist An Arm and a Leg Destination Defenestration Insult Backfire Knight Templar Mistaken for Gay The '60s Race Lift Japanese Films Our Vampires Are Different Book-Ends Epic Fail Never Found the Body Riddle for the Ages Shower Scene Here We Go Again! Totally Radical Kill 'em All Dies Wide Open Running Gag The Lost Lenore Lock and Load Montage Only One Name Scenery Gorn Recycled IN SPACE! Contrived Coincidence Half the Man He Used to Be Villain Protagonist Title Drop Amusing Injuries Fun with Acronyms The '50s Animated Credits Opening Calling the Old Man Out Character Development Badass Longcoat Only Known by Their Nickname Even Evil Has Loved Ones Tempting Fate Left the Background Music On Eagleland Freeze-Frame Bonus Vomit Indiscretion Shot Male Frontal Nudity Animal Motifs There Is No Kill Like Overkill Gainax Ending Spanner in the Works Storming the Castle Take a Third Option Break the Cutie Mythology Gag Screw the Money, I Have Rules! 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Is Serious Business Unusual Euphemism What You Are in the Dark For the Evulz Bury Your Gays It Will Never Catch On Manly Tears Damsel in Distress Rule of Three Neck Lift A Date with Rosie Palms Bar Brawl Visual Pun The Brute Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold The End... Or Is It? Horror Comedy Manipulative Bastard Heterosexual Life-Partners Captain Obvious Heel Realization Frame-Up Mama Bear Put on a Bus Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Only in It for the Money The Bully Needs Wiki Magic Love You Have Failed Me Black Best Friend Vomit Discretion Shot Defiant to the End Very Loosely Based on a True Story Failed a Spot Check Only Sane Man Shell-Shocked Veteran Lampshade Hanging Pretty in Mink Toplessness from the Back Mooks Evil Counterpart Beauty Is Never Tarnished Accidental Murder Red Oni, Blue Oni Silent Movie Authority Equals Asskicking Italian Films Last-Name Basis Foil Retired Badass Stalker with a Crush Gratuitous English Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Ax-Crazy Not Quite Dead Evil Brit Important Haircut Gold Digger Jerk with a Heart of Gold Country Matters Flipping the Bird Ambiguous Ending Adaptation Distillation Ambiguously Gay Chiaroscuro Protagonist Title Small Name, Big Ego Disney Villain Death Reality Is Unrealistic Bi the Way Broken Bird Epic Movie As Himself Aluminum Christmas Trees Parental Incest The Sociopath Developing Doomed Characters Creative Closing Credits Auto Erotica She Cleans Up Nicely Armor-Piercing Question Roaring Rampage of Revenge Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Unwitting Instigator of Doom The Voiceless Early-Bird Cameo Grievous Bottley Harm Evil Sounds Deep 20 Minutes into the Future Took a Level in Jerkass Animal Title Index Blackmail Scary Black Man Offscreen Moment of Awesome Public Domain Feature Films Chewing the Scenery Man on Fire Badass Grandpa Evil vs. Evil Chase Scene Advertised Extra Shipper on Deck Sequel Hook Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Fate Worse than Death Film Series Artistic License – Biology