Tropescilloscope: Rasputinian Death

A character survives multiple fatal events before (usually) dying. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Action Prologue Politically Incorrect Villain Batman Gambit Nothing Is Scarier Recycled IN SPACE! Protagonist Title Creator Cameo Almost Kiss Cool Guns Scary Black Man Neck Snap Freudian Excuse Funny Background Event Whole Plot Reference Establishing Character Moment Affably Evil All for Nothing Kubrick Stare Foregone Conclusion Dissonant Serenity Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Enemy Mine Chekhov's Skill Pyrrhic Victory Tagline Loads and Loads of Characters Star-Crossed Lovers Ambiguous Ending Revenge Fiery Redhead Accidental Misnaming Throwing Your Sword Always Works Names to Run Away from Really Fast I Have Your Wife Anachronism Stew Once More, with Clarity! She Cleans Up Nicely Heel–Face Turn More Dakka Frame-Up One-Word Title The Un-Reveal Accidental Murder Guns Akimbo From Bad to Worse "The Reason You Suck" Speech Hell Is That Noise Vomit Discretion Shot Male Frontal Nudity Product Placement Death of a Child Faux Affably Evil Let's Get Dangerous! Eyepatch of Power Badass Bookworm Visual Pun Mercy Kill Riddle for the Ages Hong Kong Films Pay Evil unto Evil Adaptational Villainy Obstructive Bureaucrat Early Installment Weirdness Action Genre Deus ex Machina folderlabel Disappeared Dad Maybe Ever After "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Rousing Speech Ghost Fiction You Killed My Father Kill 'em All Greater-Scope Villain Big Damn Heroes Author Avatar Asshole Victim Dirty Old Man Even Evil Has Standards Betty and Veronica Say My Name From Nobody to Nightmare Smug Snake Improbable Aiming Skills Decoy Protagonist Chiaroscuro Drugs Are Bad Soft Glass Cold-Blooded Torture Soundtrack Dissonance Arranged Marriage Corpsing I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Romantic False Lead Mystery and Detective Films Male Gaze Undying Loyalty Mr. Exposition Mundane Made Awesome Animal Motifs Shower Scene Comically Missing the Point Spared by the Adaptation All Men Are Perverts Jerk Jock Get Out! 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For! Emphasis! All There in the Manual Works Set in World War II The Mole Punny Name Dark Reprise Artistic License – Military Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? One Steve Limit A Date with Rosie Palms Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Historical Villain Upgrade Badass Boast Ax-Crazy Chekhov's Gunman Psycho for Hire Beta Couple Bad "Bad Acting" Unreliable Narrator Those Two Bad Guys Tempting Fate Toplessness from the Back Lampshade Hanging Character Development Adult Fear May–December Romance Hollywood Darkness Unspoken Plan Guarantee Bad Boss Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Bottomless Magazines Mind Screw Unusually Uninteresting Sight Last-Name Basis Kick the Dog Sir Swears-a-Lot Parental Neglect Pimped-Out Dress Novelization Wounded Gazelle Gambit Bond One-Liner No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Psychological Thriller Artistic License – Biology Attempted Rape Rule of Symbolism The Ditz No Ending "Awesome McCool" Name Loophole Abuse Peek-a-Boo Corpse The Mafia Posthumous Character In Name Only Pet the Dog Parental Substitute Faking the Dead Villain Opening Scene Horror Films Not What It Looks Like Training Montage Determinator Fire-Forged Friends Creepy Child Random Events Plot The Power of Love Love at First Sight Sassy Black Woman Music Stories Camp Gay Anachronic Order Dramatic Irony N-Word Privileges Costume Porn Annoying Younger Sibling Bloodless Carnage Captain Ersatz Television Movie Index Improvised Weapon Rule of Cool Famous Last Words Cool Old Lady Beauty Is Never Tarnished As Himself After the End Age Lift Dirty Coward Death by Sex Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Expy Genre Throwback It Will Never Catch On I Need a Freaking Drink Damsel in Distress Taking You with Me Did Not Get the Girl Retired Badass Arch-Enemy Monumental Damage The Great Depression Malevolent Masked Men Daddy's Girl The Alleged Car Deal with the Devil Redemption Equals Death Villain with Good Publicity Science Fiction Films Distracted by the Sexy Jerk with a Heart of Gold Card-Carrying Villain Evil Sounds Deep Your Head A-Splode Stock Footage Abusive Parents Curb-Stomp Battle Gorn Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Mood Whiplash Horror Comedy Dies Wide Open Casting Gag Crazy-Prepared Chewing the Scenery Shout-Out Pretty in Mink Bittersweet Ending Deliberately Monochrome Anguished Declaration of Love Non-Indicative Name Sports Stories How We Got Here Plucky Comic Relief Reality Is Unrealistic Dull Surprise Cool Old Guy A God Am I Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer This Is Gonna Suck Dropped a Bridge on Him Up to Eleven Antagonist Title Jitter Cam Reality Has No Subtitles Ominous Latin Chanting Fatal Flaw Camera Abuse Reality Ensues Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Foreshadowing Covers Always Lie Downer Ending Your Cheating Heart Eldritch Abomination Disproportionate Retribution You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Action Survivor Spanner in the Works Heroes Want Redheads Informed Ability The Smurfette Principle Naked People Are Funny Fanservice Meaningful Echo Wretched Hive Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Dirty Cop In the Back Australian Movies Line-of-Sight Name Based on a True Story Put on a Bus Friend to All Children Big Eater It's Personal Parental Incest Love Triangle Very Loosely Based on a True Story Drives Like Crazy Black Comedy The Lancer Anti-Hero Big Bad Happily Married Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas A Father to His Men Catapult Nightmare Off-into-the-Distance Ending The Remake Dogged Nice Guy Facial Horror Broken Pedestal Homage The End... Or Is It? 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The Quiet One Meaningful Name Composite Character Apocalypse How Badass Grandpa Storming the Castle Red Eyes, Take Warning Hoist by His Own Petard Superhero Hero of Another Story Evil Brit Empathic Environment Rewatch Bonus Fun with Acronyms Real Life Writes the Plot Bare Your Midriff Instant Death Bullet Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Mistaken for Gay Not Quite Dead Four-Temperament Ensemble Evil Is Hammy Setting Update Black Best Friend And I Must Scream Small Name, Big Ego Children Are Innocent Outrun the Fireball Police Brutality Playing Gertrude Anti-Villain Laughing Mad Kill It with Fire Creative Closing Credits British Films She's Got Legs Wrong Genre Savvy Dual Wielding Book-Ends Reckless Gun Usage Twist Ending Drill Sergeant Nasty Heel Realization The Stoner Easily Forgiven Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Wham Shot Ambiguous Disorder Dying Moment of Awesome Evil Plan Reasonable Authority Figure Race Against the Clock "Shaggy Dog" Story Worthy Opponent Scenery Gorn Death Glare Body Horror Does This Remind You of Anything? 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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Obviously Evil Video Credits Our Vampires Are Different Air-Vent Passageway Italian Films Idiot Ball Blood Knight Adapted Out Pre-Mortem One-Liner Romantic Comedy Bowdlerise Big-Bad Ensemble Half the Man He Used to Be Red Shirt Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Shell-Shocked Veteran Call-Back Earn Your Happy Ending Meet Cute Double Entendre Impaled with Extreme Prejudice The X of Y Artistic License – History Author Appeal Skewed Priorities In Medias Res Genre Savvy Fourth Date Marriage The Faceless Scenery Porn Offscreen Moment of Awesome Wham Line Stepford Smiler Auto Erotica Bar Brawl Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Spiritual Successor Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Badass Normal Determinator aka: The Determinator It's All About Me Adaptation Distillation Artistic License – Gun Safety Immune to Bullets Match Cut Overly Long Gag Eagleland Car Fu Humans Are Bastards Slasher Movie Same Language Dub Race Lift The Atoner Everyone Has Standards Genre Shift Corrupt Corporate Executive Getting Crap Past the Radar Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Bald of Evil I Did What I Had to Do Totally Radical Drowning My Sorrows All Just a Dream Karma Houdini Ripped from the Headlines Broken Aesop The Starscream Hair-Trigger Temper Noodle Incident Smoking Is Cool Evil vs. Evil No Name Given What the Hell, Hero? A Minor Kidroduction The Casanova Break the Cutie Trailers Always Spoil Psychopathic Manchild Villainous Breakdown Despair Event Horizon Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Took a Level in Jerkass Bond Villain Stupidity Fantastic Racism Only Known by Their Nickname Shipper on Deck Every Car Is a Pinto Military and Warfare Films Adaptation Dye-Job Only in It for the Money Evil Laugh Deconstruction Show Within a Show Police are Useless Mooks The Sociopath Neck Lift Insane Troll Logic No OSHA Compliance Shut Up, Hannibal! Stuff Blowing Up Be Careful What You Wish For Mighty Whitey Badass in a Nice Suit Thriller The Voiceless Unwitting Instigator of Doom Eureka Moment He Who Fights Monsters Take That! All Girls Want Bad Boys Intergenerational Friendship Chekhov's Gun Artistic License – Law Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Cruel and Unusual Death Award-Bait Song Defrosting Ice Queen Villain Protagonist Suspiciously Specific Denial Gold Digger And Starring Domestic Abuse Bolivian Army Ending The Bully An Axe to Grind Curse Cut Short Vomit Indiscretion Shot Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Retirony Too Dumb to Live Villain Ball Nice Guy The Dragon Major Injury Underreaction Epic Fail Translation Convention Double-Meaning Title Honor Before Reason Woman Scorned Zombie Stories Dramedy Stealth Hi/Bye Big Applesauce Documentary Token Minority The '90s Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Hypocritical Humor Dressing as the Enemy The Dreaded Vampire Fiction Didn't Think This Through Badass Longcoat Gender Flip Fat Bastard Five-Man Band Armor-Piercing Question Redshirt Army Bound and Gagged The Bad Guy Wins Heroic Sacrifice Villain Song Brick Joke Big Fancy House Rasputinian Death Implacable Man Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Suspiciously Similar Substitute Dwindling Party Death by Irony Jerkass Alliterative Name Tap on the Head Fainting Serious Business Film Noir The Ghost Narrator Bi the Way The Smart Guy Green-Eyed Monster Re-Cut Becoming the Mask Madness Mantra Defiant to the End Logo Joke Amusing Injuries MacGuffin Rule of Three Ship Tease Bilingual Bonus Coming-of-Age Story Never Trust a Trailer The Ace Self-Deprecation Karmic Death Anyone Can Die Papa Wolf Conspicuous CG Cloudcuckoolander Woman in White Cassandra Truth Combat Pragmatist Heterosexual Life-Partners Retcon Obfuscating Stupidity Properly Paranoid Film Noir Index Historical-Domain Character Better to Die than Be Killed Fake Shemp Black Comedy Rape Adaptational Heroism Celebrity Paradox The Oner Alpha Bitch Butt-Monkey Not So Above It All Stylistic Suck Vacation Films Destination Defenestration Intrepid Reporter Running Gag Adorkable Belligerent Sexual Tension For the Evulz Black Dude Dies First Calling the Old Man Out Gone Horribly Right Index of Film Westerns Freeze-Frame Bonus Martial Arts Movie The Brute Beard of Evil Pretty Little Headshots Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Action Girl It Can Think Slap-Slap-Kiss Chase Scene As Long as It Sounds Foreign My God, What Have I Done? Our Zombies Are Different O.O.C. Is Serious Business He Knows Too Much Cat Fight Mexican Standoff Final Girl World of Ham Early-Bird Cameo I'm a Humanitarian Bunny-Ears Lawyer Authority Equals Asskicking The Vamp Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Laser-Guided Karma Grey and Gray Morality Break the Haughty As the Good Book Says... Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Captain Obvious Adaptation Name Change Gory Discretion Shot Adaptational Badass Married to the Job La Résistance Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Take a Third Option Rich Bitch Demoted to Extra Tranquil Fury Christmas Movies Index Made of Explodium Suddenly SHOUTING! B-Movie My Greatest Failure Imagine Spot Motor Mouth Danny Peary Cult Movies List NO INDOOR VOICE Crapsack World Unusual Euphemism Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Eye Scream Naïve Newcomer Scare Chord Crazy Jealous Guy All There in the Script Darker and Edgier Sole Survivor Irony Fate Worse than Death The Reveal What You Are in the Dark Bullying a Dragon Call-Forward Russian Films Shown Their Work The '80s Off with His Head! Refuge in Audacity Chuck Cunningham Syndrome French Films Sinister Minister There Is No Kill Like Overkill Blood from the Mouth Jump Scare Expository Hairstyle Change Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Gilligan Cut Here We Go Again! Stealth Pun Depraved Bisexual Cain and Abel And the Adventure Continues Light Is Not Good Hidden Depths Cool Car Amoral Attorney Abhorrent Admirer Victoria's Secret Compartment You Have Failed Me Country Matters Flipping the Bird Blackmail Slashed Throat Together in Death Evil Counterpart Leitmotif Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Well-Intentioned Extremist Hate Sink Framing Device Manipulative Bastard The Lost Lenore Lighter and Softer