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)

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Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Vampire Fiction Italian Films Heroic BSoD Rousing Speech Wham Line B-Movie Sacrificial Lion No Celebrities Were Harmed Superhero Ascended Extra I'm a Humanitarian Drives Like Crazy Epic Movie Random Events Plot Sequel Hook Irony Visual Pun Car Fu Training Montage Pretty Little Headshots Death Seeker Rape as Drama Sports Stories Overprotective Dad From Nobody to Nightmare Documentary Instant Death Bullet Composite Character Insistent Terminology Bland-Name Product Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Darkest Hour Improbable Aiming Skills Freeze-Frame Bonus Hell Is That Noise Heroes Want Redheads Self-Deprecation Adaptational Attractiveness Damsel in Distress Dark Action Girl Evil Plan Artistic License – Military Character Development Reality Has No Subtitles Bald of Evil Madness Mantra Leaning on the Fourth Wall Five-Man Band Hair-Trigger Temper Token Minority Air-Vent Passageway An Arm and a Leg Dark Reprise Redemption Equals Death Meaningful Name Bavarian Fire Drill The Oner Dirty Coward The Stoic Only One Name You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! 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They Really Do Love Each Other Spiteful Spit Double-Meaning Title Pre-Mortem One-Liner Cool Car Killed Mid-Sentence Blatant Lies Abhorrent Admirer Agony of the Feet Skewed Priorities Call-Back Rated M for Manly The Faceless Ironic Echo It's All About Me Have a Gay Old Time Framing Device Karmic Death Morality Pet Death of a Child Made of Explodium Film Noir Unwitting Instigator of Doom Darker and Edgier Dogged Nice Guy Men Are the Expendable Gender Back from the Dead Dies Wide Open Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Handicapped Badass Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Took a Level in Badass Distracted by the Sexy Deliberately Monochrome Deadpan Snarker The Voiceless Plucky Comic Relief Ambiguously Gay Advertised Extra No Name Given No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Daddy's Girl Leitmotif Disney Villain Death The Big Guy Artistic License – Gun Safety Stalker with a Crush As Long as It Sounds Foreign Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Asshole Victim Hero of Another Story Brick Joke Improbable Weapon User All Girls Want Bad Boys Hypocritical Humor Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Meet Cute The Great Depression Black Comedy Rape Boom, Headshot! Slap-Slap-Kiss Undying Loyalty