Tropescilloscope: Pre-Mortem One-Liner

Something you say to someone before you kill them. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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