Tropescilloscope: Pretty Little Headshots

A headshot leaves a bullet-shaped hole in the victim's head, and nothing more. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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