Tropescilloscope: Pre-Mortem One-Liner

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

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