Tropescilloscope: Karmic Death

An irredeemable villain meets their comeuppance in a fitting and well-deserved death that is entirely their own fault. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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