Tropescilloscope: Mercy Kill

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

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There Is No Kill Like Overkill Country Matters Names to Run Away from Really Fast Aside Glance Dying Moment of Awesome Jump Scare Dwindling Party Word of God Dramatic Gun Cock Red Shirt Enemy Mine Narrator Badass Boast Men Are the Expendable Gender British Films Whole Plot Reference Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Eureka Moment Adult Fear Genre Savvy Award-Bait Song Skewed Priorities Fatal Flaw Unusually Uninteresting Sight Arranged Marriage Depraved Bisexual Death Seeker "Shaggy Dog" Story Cool Shades Developing Doomed Characters Pretty Little Headshots Cool Old Lady Cluster F-Bomb Have a Gay Old Time Alliterative Name Psychological Thriller Bowdlerise Those Two Guys Cruel and Unusual Death Deadpan Snarker Big-Bad Ensemble Villain Ball Rule of Symbolism Domestic Abuse Taking the Bullet Cat Fight All for Nothing Black Comedy Rape Training Montage Extreme Doormat Soft Glass Outrun the Fireball Instant Death Bullet No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Fire-Forged Friends Get Out! 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No Celebrities Were Harmed Lampshade Hanging Really Gets Around Gilligan Cut Those Wacky Nazis Unspoken Plan Guarantee Fiery Redhead Chiaroscuro Sacrificial Lion The Casanova Toplessness from the Back Love at First Sight Empathic Environment Deliberately Monochrome War Is Hell No Name Given Accidental Misnaming Chuck Cunningham Syndrome After the End The Great Depression Grievous Bottley Harm Villainous Breakdown Setting Update Darker and Edgier Camera Abuse Older Than They Look Gender Flip Big Fancy House Pragmatic Villainy Hope Spot Fat Bastard No OSHA Compliance The Faceless From Bad to Worse Big Bad Same Language Dub Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Beware the Nice Ones Too Dumb to Live Catch-Phrase The End... Or Is It? 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Dark Action Girl Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Sequel Escalation Evil Sounds Deep Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Black Comedy Soundtrack Dissonance Adults Are Useless Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Calling the Old Man Out Offscreen Teleportation Flipping the Bird Broken Pedestal Psychopathic Manchild Mistaken for Gay Red Right Hand Smoking Is Cool Never Trust a Trailer Heterosexual Life-Partners Badass Bookworm Honor Before Reason Dissonant Serenity Rated M for Manly BFG Intrepid Reporter Meaningful Echo Not Even Bothering with the Accent The Ditz Bond Villain Stupidity Malevolent Masked Men Wicked Cultured Not So Stoic Cat Scare Defiant to the End Mr. Exposition The X of Y Badass Normal Mama Bear Say My Name Obviously Evil Extremely Short Timespan Works Set in World War II Double Entendre Mighty Whitey Public Domain Feature Films Everyone Has Standards Artistic License – Gun Safety "Awesome McCool" Name Does Not Like Shoes Jerk with a Heart of Gold Take a Third Option I Did What I Had to Do Rule of Funny Crazy-Prepared Ominous Latin Chanting Bury Your Gays You Killed My Father Sci-Fi Horror Adaptation Distillation Lock and Load Montage The Ace Not So Above It All Ascended Extra One Steve Limit Be Careful What You Wish For Wretched Hive Based on a True Story Expository Hairstyle Change Henpecked Husband Big Applesauce Foreshadowing Ambiguously Gay Sassy Black Woman Hair-Trigger Temper Dirty Coward Corrupt Corporate Executive Stylistic Suck Establishing Character Moment World of Ham Double-Meaning Title Chekhov's Gunman Disney Villain Death Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Drugs Are Bad Show Within a Show Evil Is Hammy Dull Surprise Authority Equals Asskicking Cool Old Guy Bare Your Midriff Decoy Protagonist Naïve Newcomer Maybe Ever After Amusing Injuries Laser-Guided Karma Never My Fault Up to Eleven Neck Lift Chewing the Scenery Together in Death Abhorrent Admirer Big Damn Heroes Super Strength Daylight Horror Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds As Long as It Sounds Foreign Early-Bird Cameo Friend to All Children She's Got Legs Screw the Money, I Have Rules! 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Mundane Made Awesome Obfuscating Stupidity Children Are Innocent Sadistic Choice Demoted to Extra The Smurfette Principle Loads and Loads of Characters Creator Cameo Motor Mouth Black Best Friend Freudian Excuse Index of Film Westerns Canadian Movies Flashback Body Horror MacGuffin Card-Carrying Villain Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Victoria's Secret Compartment Peek-a-Boo Corpse The Reveal Television Movie Index Silent Movie Facial Horror Interrupted Suicide Dressing as the Enemy Animated Credits Opening Age Lift The Hero Dies '80s Hair Captain Ersatz Girl-on-Girl Is Hot The Cavalry The '90s All There in the Manual Intergenerational Friendship Dark and Troubled Past NO INDOOR VOICE Karma Houdini Horror Comedy Re-Cut Twist Ending Genre Shift Knight Templar Action Prologue How We Got Here Evil Plan Jerkass Has a Point Genre Throwback The Quiet One Overly Long Gag Celebrity Paradox Call-Forward You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! 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Sir Swears-a-Lot True Companions Disguised in Drag Made of Iron Manchild Vacation Films Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Determinator Bloodier and Gorier Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Unusual Euphemism Bittersweet Ending Hidden Depths Hong Kong Films Annoying Younger Sibling Fan Disservice Random Events Plot Gratuitous English A.I. Is a Crapshoot Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Boom, Headshot! Bad "Bad Acting" Roaring Rampage of Revenge Death by Sex Put on a Bus Rich Bitch Spanner in the Works Coming-of-Age Story No-Sell Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Translation Convention Character Development Manic Pixie Dream Girl Would Hit a Girl Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Adorkable Dumb Blonde Catapult Nightmare Central Theme Hell Is That Noise Eye Scream Evil-Detecting Dog The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Suspiciously Similar Substitute Pyrrhic Victory Killed Mid-Sentence Film Series Conspicuous CG Here We Go Again! 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Guy The '70s Disproportionate Retribution Ghost Fiction Irony Reality Has No Subtitles Papa Wolf Bi the Way Pimped-Out Dress In the Back Woman in White Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Hollywood Darkness Dark Reprise Cold-Blooded Torture Only One Name All Just a Dream Make It Look Like an Accident No Antagonist Offscreen Moment of Awesome Implacable Man Adaptational Heroism Fingore Action Genre No Ending Cassandra Truth Evil Laugh Playing Gertrude Rousing Speech Mexican Standoff Martial Arts Movie Disappeared Dad Death Glare Eagleland Artistic License – History Karmic Death Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Gone Horribly Right Punctuated! For! Emphasis! 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