Tropescilloscope: Mercy Kill

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

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