Tropescilloscope: Pre-Mortem One-Liner

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

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