Tropescilloscope: In the Back

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

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