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