Tropescilloscope: Mercy Kill

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

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