Tropescilloscope: Mercy Kill

Killing someone who is better off dead. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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