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