Tropescilloscope: Pre-Mortem One-Liner

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

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Offscreen Moment of Awesome Blatant Lies Red Shirt Badass Longcoat Red Right Hand Fourth Date Marriage Batman Gambit I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Adorkable Dwindling Party Breaking the Fourth Wall Shout-Out Scenery Porn Nice Guy You Killed My Father Chekhov's Gunman Becoming the Mask Stock Footage Evil Plan Bi the Way Badass Bookworm Action Genre Dark Action Girl Villain Opening Scene Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Real Life Pimped-Out Dress The Load Super Strength Nothing Is Scarier Race Against the Clock Unusual Euphemism Stuff Blowing Up Artistic License – History Early-Bird Cameo Creator Cameo Kids Are Cruel Captain Obvious Whole Plot Reference Naked People Are Funny Beard of Evil Death by Irony Jump Scare Deconstruction Asshole Victim An Aesop Heroes Want Redheads Bowdlerise Eldritch Abomination Dirty Coward Dutch Angle Bloody Hilarious After the End Historical-Domain Character It Will Never Catch On Ambiguous Ending Not What It Looks Like Shipper on Deck Adaptation Distillation Hero of Another Story No-Sell Music Stories Needs Wiki Magic Love Damsel in Distress Creative Closing Credits Light Is Not Good Artistic License – Law Continuity Nod Silent Movie This Is Gonna Suck Jerkass Has a Point Gender Flip Maybe Ever After Ghost Fiction Friend to All Children BFG Earn Your Happy Ending Canon Foreigner Affectionate Parody Shut Up, Hannibal! Mama Bear Blood from the Mouth Broken Pedestal Bond One-Liner Stalker with a Crush The Bad Guy Wins Fate Worse than Death Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Random Events Plot Naïve Newcomer Creepy Child Rich Bitch Determinator aka: The Determinator Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Mythology Gag Femme Fatale Roaring Rampage of Revenge Alliterative Name And I Must Scream Abusive Parents Lampshade Hanging Police are Useless Fat Bastard Fun with Acronyms Catch-Phrase Visual Pun Anachronism Stew It Can Think Faking the Dead Costume Porn You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Sadistic Choice Crapsack World Not So Above It All Make It Look Like an Accident Sole Survivor Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Horror Films Canadian Movies Antagonist Title Missing Mom Does This Remind You of Anything? Bullying a Dragon Be Careful What You Wish For Bound and Gagged Fatal Family Photo Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Armor-Piercing Question Zombie Stories B-Movie Funny Background Event The Dog Bites Back The End... Or Is It? Babies Ever After Works Set in World War II Manchild Cat Fight Expy The Quiet One Heroic BSoD Empathic Environment Big Fancy House Victoria's Secret Compartment All Just a Dream Brick Joke Vitriolic Best Buds Brutal Honesty Your Cheating Heart How We Got Here Poor Communication Kills Evil vs. Evil Self-Deprecation Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Epic Fail Moment Killer Mistaken for Gay The Oner Meaningful Echo Daddy's Girl Badass Boast Artistic License – Geography Historical Hero Upgrade Double-Meaning Title Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Redshirt Army Hooker with a Heart of Gold Famous Last Words Totally Radical Romantic Comedy Dark and Troubled Past Large Ham Disproportionate Retribution Credits Gag I Did What I Had to Do Black Comedy Cowboy Cop Mr. Fanservice Not So Stoic Christmas Movies Index Ms. Fanservice Novelization Retcon The Stoner Mugging the Monster Overly Long Gag Logo Joke Wrong Genre Savvy Gone Horribly Right The Alcoholic Dying Moment of Awesome Ax-Crazy Unusually Uninteresting Sight And Starring Up to Eleven There Is No Kill Like Overkill No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Irony Hero Antagonist Adaptational Heroism Didn't Think This Through Papa Wolf Cloudcuckoolander Danny Peary Cult Movies List Slasher Smile Chewing the Scenery The Chessmaster Your Head A-Splode Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! An Axe to Grind Deliberate Values Dissonance The Great Depression Darker and Edgier Get Out! Chase Scene Interrupted Suicide Even Evil Has Loved Ones Man on Fire One-Word Title The Film of the Book Toplessness from the Back Call-Back Domestic Abuse Villain with Good Publicity I Need a Freaking Drink Smoking Is Cool Honor Before Reason Lock and Load Montage Take That! As Long as It Sounds Foreign Arc Words Historical In-Joke The Ghost Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Woman Scorned Sealed Evil in a Can Manipulative Bastard The '90s Reality Is Unrealistic Loads and Loads of Characters Mad Scientist Here We Go Again! Bittersweet Ending Mystery and Detective Films Hoist by His Own Petard Stepford Smiler Age Lift "Shaggy Dog" Story Television Movie Index Slashed Throat Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Hidden Depths Action Prologue Spiteful Spit Fish out of Water Redemption Equals Death Amusing Injuries Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene He Who Fights Monsters Revenge Knight Templar Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Narrator Kubrick Stare The Dragon Take a Third Option One Steve Limit Posthumous Character Adult Fear Award-Bait Song Market-Based Title Attempted Rape Action Girl Vomit Discretion Shot Improbable Aiming Skills Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Parental Neglect Ambiguous Disorder Dull Surprise Shoot the Shaggy Dog Anti-Villain Well-Intentioned Extremist Fanservice Implacable Man Black Comedy Rape O.O.C. 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Sports Stories No Ending Male Gaze Rule of Funny N-Word Privileges The Stoic The Cameo Improvised Weapon The Big Guy Failed a Spot Check Adaptational Villainy Cold-Blooded Torture Last-Name Basis Enemy Mine Red Oni, Blue Oni Faux Affably Evil Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Have a Gay Old Time The Voiceless Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! 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Gainax Ending Leave the Camera Running Extreme Doormat Room Full of Crazy Imagine Spot Older Than They Look Extremely Short Timespan Hell Is That Noise Loophole Abuse Documentary Darkest Hour Evil-Detecting Dog Film Noir Dark Is Not Evil Black Best Friend Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Pet the Dog Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Big-Bad Ensemble Recycled IN SPACE! 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Guy The Hero Dies Stealth Hi/Bye Hollywood Law Wham Line Kick the Dog Military and Warfare Films British Films Fantastic Racism Married to the Job Happily Married Parental Abandonment Retirony Unresolved Sexual Tension Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Everyone Has Standards Superhero Freudian Excuse Dramatic Gun Cock Eye Scream Sci-Fi Horror The Lost Lenore Country Matters As You Know Evil Counterpart Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Bare Your Midriff Determinator He Knows Too Much Real Life Writes the Plot Chiaroscuro Humiliation Conga Advertised Extra Disney Death Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Peek-a-Boo Corpse World of Ham Camera Abuse Cool Old Lady The Brute Cruel and Unusual Death In Name Only Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Berserk Button Five-Man Band Coming-of-Age Story I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Villain Ball Celebrity Paradox Bad "Bad Acting" Scary Black Man The Ditz Suspiciously Specific Denial Major Injury Underreaction Tagline Male Frontal Nudity Those Wacky Nazis Yandere Gory Discretion Shot Insult Backfire I Have Your Wife Match Cut Affably Evil Dumb Blonde Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Diabolus ex Machina Drowning My Sorrows Fan Disservice Hypocrite Hate Sink Deadpan Snarker Protagonist Title Once More, with Clarity! Destination Defenestration timeperiod Taking You with Me Sir Swears-a-Lot Roger Ebert: Great Movies List French Films An Arm and a Leg Disguised in Drag Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Suspiciously Similar Substitute Same Language Dub Badass Grandpa Title Drop The Hero Off with His Head! Bury Your Gays Unwitting Instigator of Doom Line-of-Sight Name Karma Houdini Badass Normal folderlabel Evil Brit Contrived Coincidence Men Are the Expendable Gender Japanese Films Demonic Possession Curb-Stomp Battle Ripped from the Headlines Serial Killer Demoted to Extra Double Entendre Amoral Attorney Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Artistic License – Military Early Installment Weirdness Undying Loyalty Scenery Gorn Black and Gray Morality Ship Tease The Un-Reveal Karmic Death Getting Crap Past the Radar Not Using the "Z" Word Shell-Shocked Veteran One-Man Army All There in the Manual Beauty Is Never Tarnished Malevolent Masked Men Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Genre Savvy Motor Mouth Fake Shemp Say My Name Actor Allusion Spiritual Successor Cluster F-Bomb Bloodier and Gorier Accidental Murder Vacation Films More Dakka Drill Sergeant Nasty Laughing Mad Vampire Fiction Mr. Exposition Throwing Your Sword Always Works Exact Words Dissonant Serenity Brother–Sister Incest Drives Like Crazy War Is Hell The Starscream Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Does Not Like Shoes From Nobody to Nightmare Love at First Sight Spanner in the Works The X of Y Soundtrack Dissonance Greater-Scope Villain Romantic False Lead Bloodless Carnage Bunny-Ears Lawyer Rated M for Manly Obfuscating Stupidity Bilingual Bonus Bavarian Fire Drill Skewed Priorities Sinister Minister Cat Scare Did Not Get the Girl Soft Glass MacGuffin All Girls Want Bad Boys Alpha Bitch Eagleland Crazy Jealous Guy Fainting Cassandra Truth Dressing as the Enemy Death of a Child Calling the Old Man Out Dirty Cop Refuge in Audacity Serious Business Not So Different Riddle for the Ages Neck Lift Big Damn Heroes Our Vampires Are Different Foil Rule of Three Bald of Evil Author Appeal Frame-Up Genre Throwback My Beloved Smother "The Reason You Suck" Speech A.I. Is a Crapshoot Madness Mantra Pyrrhic Victory Ass Shove Names to Run Away from Really Fast Gratuitous English Together in Death Ascended Extra It's Personal Character Development The Remake Curse Cut Short A Father to His Men Video Credits Race Lift Leitmotif Public Domain Feature Films Suddenly SHOUTING! 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No Name Given Corpsing Mercy Kill Evil Is Hammy The Sociopath Daylight Horror Anachronic Order Guns Akimbo Our Zombies Are Different Australian Movies The Cavalry Apocalypse How Martial Arts Movie Henpecked Husband Noodle Incident Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Camp Gay The Ace A God Am I The Atoner Framing Device Due to the Dead Guile Hero Silence Is Golden Jerk with a Heart of Gold Off-into-the-Distance Ending Bottomless Magazines A Minor Kidroduction Horror Comedy Every Car Is a Pinto Jerkass Bar Brawl Paper-Thin Disguise Stealth Pun Not Even Bothering with the Accent Boom, Headshot! Face Death with Dignity Half the Man He Used to Be Crazy-Prepared