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