Tropescilloscope: Instant Death Bullet

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

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Light Is Not Good Epic Fail Foreshadowing Didn't Think This Through Artistic License – History Faking the Dead Wicked Cultured Our Zombies Are Different Framing Device Rasputinian Death Jerk with a Heart of Gold Fire-Forged Friends Casting Gag Car Fu Downer Ending For Want of a Nail Manic Pixie Dream Girl More Dakka Sinister Minister Beard of Evil There Is No Kill Like Overkill Properly Paranoid Adaptational Villainy Papa Wolf Not What It Looks Like Cruel and Unusual Death I Did What I Had to Do Cool Old Lady Creepy Child Important Haircut Bi the Way Daylight Horror Television Movie Index Improbable Weapon User Historical Villain Upgrade Artistic License – Physics Maybe Ever After "Awesome McCool" Name Mama Bear Disappeared Dad Canadian Movies Death by Adaptation Big Bad Arch-Enemy Rousing Speech Domestic Abuse Animal Title Index Mood Whiplash Guns Akimbo Ass Shove Playing Gertrude Re-Cut Insane Troll Logic Half the Man He Used to Be Good Is Not Nice Male Frontal Nudity Aside Glance Book-Ends Call-Forward Even Evil Has Standards Break the Cutie Did Not Get the Girl Homage And Starring Scenery Porn Deconstruction Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Failed a Spot Check Bloodless Carnage Roaring Rampage of Revenge Rewatch Bonus Big Eater Idiot Ball From Nobody to Nightmare Crazy-Prepared Hong Kong Films Peek-a-Boo Corpse Redshirt Army Once More, with Clarity! Obstructive Bureaucrat Suspiciously Specific Denial Index of Film Westerns Cowboy Cop Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Intergenerational Friendship Empathic Environment Punch-Clock Villain Gorn May–December Romance I Need a Freaking Drink The '50s Bavarian Fire Drill Title Drop Line-of-Sight Name Ambiguous Ending Taking You with Me Reality Has No Subtitles The Sociopath Missing Mom Star-Crossed Lovers Almost Kiss Red Eyes, Take Warning As Himself Knife Nut Badass Normal Arc Words Ms. Fanservice Adults Are Useless Award-Bait Song Setting Update The Place Heterosexual Life-Partners Bound and Gagged Married to the Job Bottomless Magazines All Men Are Perverts The Atoner Rated M for Manly World of Ham No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Artistic License – Gun Safety Coming-of-Age Story One Steve Limit Not Quite Dead Chewing the Scenery I'm a Humanitarian Fanservice Black and Gray Morality Death Glare The Vamp The Cameo Stealth Pun Evil Sounds Deep Canon Foreigner Poor Communication Kills The Dragon Gainax Ending The Faceless Intrepid Reporter Killed Mid-Sentence Creative Closing Credits Happily Married No Ending Taking the Bullet Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Chase Scene Damsel in Distress Jerk Jock Catch-Phrase Black Comedy Mundane Made Awesome Genre Savvy Vampire Fiction Fake Shemp She's Got Legs Amoral Attorney Captain Ersatz Adaptation Dye-Job Adaptational Badass Blackmail Gory Discretion Shot Cain and Abel Pet the Dog Country Matters Action Prologue The Great Depression Screw the Money, I Have Rules! 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They Really Do Love Each Other Advertised Extra Self-Deprecation All Girls Want Bad Boys O.O.C. Is Serious Business Decoy Protagonist Toplessness from the Back Heroes Want Redheads Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor It Will Never Catch On Demoted to Extra "Where Are They Now?" 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Those Two Guys Throwing Your Sword Always Works Wretched Hive Bond Villain Stupidity He Who Fights Monsters Villain with Good Publicity The Big Guy Costume Porn Fish out of Water Drives Like Crazy Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking The Reveal Expy Real Life Writes the Plot Last-Name Basis Love at First Sight Precision F-Strike Fantastic Racism Dropped a Bridge on Him Cool Guns Covers Always Lie Stealth Hi/Bye Dark Action Girl Asshole Victim Ax-Crazy Deus ex Machina Ascended Extra This Is Gonna Suck Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! All There in the Script Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Artistic License – Geography Hero of Another Story Evil vs. Evil All There in the Manual Wham Shot Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Expository Hairstyle Change Biopic Anyone Can Die Groin Attack The Cavalry Corrupt Corporate Executive The '70s The Load Implacable Man Cool Old Guy Beware the Nice Ones It's All About Me Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Adaptation Name Change Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Leitmotif Madness Mantra Cool Shades Big Fancy House Mythology Gag Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Crapsack World Here We Go Again! Badass Grandpa Villain Song Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Hidden Depths Pyrrhic Victory Names to Run Away from Really Fast Contrived Coincidence A Father to His Men Determinator aka: The Determinator Berserk Button Better to Die than Be Killed Kids Are Cruel Unusually Uninteresting Sight Big-Bad Ensemble Pay Evil unto Evil Whole Plot Reference Politically Incorrect Villain Silent Movie Action Genre Slap-Slap-Kiss Four-Temperament Ensemble Man on Fire Storming the Castle Epic Movie Ripped from the Headlines The Hero Dies Affably Evil Neck Lift Hero Antagonist Dumb Blonde Loads and Loads of Characters Leaning on the Fourth Wall Enemy Mine Sassy Black Woman Humiliation Conga She Cleans Up Nicely Facial Horror The Casanova Shipper on Deck A Minor Kidroduction Leave the Camera Running Historical Hero Upgrade Bury Your Gays Ship Tease Big Applesauce No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer One-Man Army Actually Pretty Funny The X of Y Made of Explodium Honor Before Reason Big Damn Heroes Training Montage Fourth Date Marriage Psychological Thriller Military and Warfare Films Sealed Evil in a Can Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Fantasy Films Match Cut I Have Your Wife Stalker with a Crush Took a Level in Jerkass Worthy Opponent La Résistance Dying Moment of Awesome Adaptational Attractiveness Deadpan Snarker Japanese Films Darker and Edgier Death by Irony Bunny-Ears Lawyer Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Heroic Sacrifice Aluminum Christmas Trees Captain Obvious Sadistic Choice Outrun the Fireball Police Brutality Thriller The Lancer Improvised Weapon Humans Are Bastards Take a Third Option Serial Killer Guile Hero Put on a Bus Sole Survivor Public Domain Feature Films In the Back Red Oni, Blue Oni Death Seeker Only One Name Destination Defenestration Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Up to Eleven Badass Bookworm Not Even Bothering with the Accent Offscreen Teleportation Body Horror Alas, Poor Villain Continuity Nod Works Set in World War II Really Gets Around The Mafia Meet Cute Jump Scare Diabolus ex Machina Becoming the Mask Martial Arts Movie Historical In-Joke Tagline Abusive Parents Dramatic Gun Cock Heel–Face Turn Black Best Friend Insistent Terminology Totally Radical Dramatic Irony Every Car Is a Pinto Adorkable Laser-Guided Karma Action Survivor Revenge Manly Tears Race Lift Shoot the Shaggy Dog Bar Brawl Shell-Shocked Veteran Rape as Drama Drugs Are Bad Needs Wiki Magic Love It Can Think Black Comedy Rape "Shaggy Dog" Story A.I. Is a Crapshoot Green-Eyed Monster Ambiguous Disorder Deliberate Values Dissonance Eiffel Tower Effect Undying Loyalty Victoria's Secret Compartment Romantic False Lead Affectionate Parody Dual Wielding Sexy Discretion Shot Science Fiction Films Russian Films The Brute Word of God Ironic Echo Off with His Head! 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Pimped-Out Dress German Films Famous Last Words Never Found the Body Scare Chord Psycho for Hire Genre Shift Left the Background Music On Gold Digger The Film of the Book Protagonist Title Those Wacky Nazis Zombie Stories Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Same Language Dub Central Theme Visual Pun Five-Man Band Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Cold-Blooded Torture Comically Missing the Point A God Am I Love Triangle Immune to Bullets My Greatest Failure Australian Movies French Films '80s Hair Vitriolic Best Buds An Axe to Grind Parental Neglect Offscreen Moment of Awesome Artistic License – Law Shower Scene Reality Ensues I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Our Vampires Are Different Eureka Moment Shown Their Work Wrong Genre Savvy Only Known by Their Nickname The Dog Bites Back Oh, Crap! Exactly What It Says on the Tin Skewed Priorities Chekhov's Skill Sanity Slippage One-Word Title Dwindling Party Dutch Angle Jitter Cam Laughing Mad Drowning My Sorrows Spiritual Successor Moment Killer No OSHA Compliance Butt-Monkey Manipulative Bastard Anachronism Stew Shirtless Scene Evil Laugh Femme Fatale Together in Death Dark Reprise Nothing Is Scarier Big Bad Duumvirate Establishing Character Moment Cool Car The Stoic Posthumous Character Suspiciously Similar Substitute Evil-Detecting Dog Product Placement Disney Death No Name Given The Alleged Car "Well Done, Son!" Guy Overly Long Gag Disney Villain Death Bald of Evil Manchild Vacation Films Took a Level in Badass Time Skip Calling the Old Man Out Major Injury Underreaction Male Gaze Despair Event Horizon