Tropescilloscope: Pre-Mortem One-Liner

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

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