Tropescilloscope: Pre-Mortem One-Liner

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

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