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