Tropescilloscope: Mercy Kill

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

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