Tropescilloscope: Off with His Head!

Death by decapitation. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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