Tropescilloscope: In the Back

Getting stabbed or shot from behind. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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