Tropescilloscope: Mercy Kill

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

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