Tropescilloscope: Rasputinian Death

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

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Is a Crapshoot Composite Character Rule of Three Bloody Hilarious Hair-Trigger Temper Gory Discretion Shot The Alcoholic Fanservice Extra Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Kids Are Cruel Call-Back Disproportionate Retribution Paper-Thin Disguise The Musical Pay Evil unto Evil Red Herring Overly Long Gag Film Noir Psychopathic Manchild Dull Surprise Bad "Bad Acting" Destination Defenestration Improbable Weapon User Not Using the "Z" Word Mooks Creepy Child Badass Normal Informed Ability Horror Comedy Catapult Nightmare Heterosexual Life-Partners You Have Failed Me Enemy Mine The Hero Dies Very Loosely Based on a True Story Badass Bookworm Villainous Breakdown The '50s Men Are the Expendable Gender Author Appeal Boom, Headshot! Honor Before Reason Smug Snake Action Survivor Improvised Weapon Important Haircut NO INDOOR VOICE No-Sell Public Domain Feature Films Abhorrent Admirer Index of Film Westerns BFG Kick the Son of a Bitch Credits Gag Tagline Adapted Out The Casanova O.O.C. Is Serious Business Happily Married Not Even Bothering with the Accent Bolivian Army Ending Evil Plan Deliberate Values Dissonance All There in the Manual "Awesome McCool" Name Mood Whiplash Jitter Cam Bittersweet Ending French Films Extremely Short Timespan Cold-Blooded Torture Anti-Villain Unusually Uninteresting Sight Heroes Want Redheads Didn't Think This Through Big Applesauce Motor Mouth No Ending Animal Motifs Bar Brawl Mighty Whitey The Atoner Not What It Looks Like Captain Obvious It's Personal Real Life Writes the Plot Dressing as the Enemy Ax-Crazy Flashback Armor-Piercing Question Action Prologue Intrepid Reporter True Companions Meet Cute Here We Go Again! 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The Film of the Book Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Cool Guns Shoot the Shaggy Dog The Stoic Gratuitous English Beard of Evil Artistic License – Military Actually Pretty Funny Celebrity Paradox Big Bad Never My Fault Chekhov's Gunman Hate Sink Dutch Angle It Will Never Catch On Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Creative Closing Credits Continuity Nod Covers Always Lie Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Dark Is Not Evil This Is Gonna Suck Anyone Can Die Mr. Exposition Match Cut Fun with Acronyms Crucified Hero Shot The Load The Bully Precision F-Strike Parental Substitute Chase Scene Developing Doomed Characters All Girls Want Bad Boys Stylistic Suck Papa Wolf Parental Abandonment Villain Song Fantastic Racism Ambiguous Disorder Big "NO!" Australian Movies Femme Fatale The Place Names to Run Away from Really Fast Narrator Together in Death Broken Pedestal Brother–Sister Incest Sole Survivor Danny Peary Cult Movies List Taking the Bullet The Remake Big Brother Instinct The Alleged Car Real Life Implacable Man Meaningful Background Event Those Wacky Nazis Disguised in Drag Immune to Bullets Evil Is Hammy The Lost Lenore Brick Joke Corpsing Sexy Discretion Shot Earn Your Happy Ending Killed Mid-Sentence Daylight Horror Funny Background Event It's All About Me No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Black Dude Dies First Fatal Family Photo Retcon Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Bald of Evil Only One Name Dirty Old Man Big Bad Duumvirate Revenge Ms. Fanservice Rousing Speech In Medias Res The Sociopath Groin Attack Eiffel Tower Effect Blood Knight Famous Last Words Aluminum Christmas Trees Adaptation Name Change Room Full of Crazy Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Romantic Comedy Hollywood Darkness Does Not Like Shoes The Voiceless Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Fourth Date Marriage Cowboy Cop Noodle Incident Genre Savvy Flipping the Bird Villain Opening Scene Evil Counterpart Bound and Gagged Super Strength Jerk Jock Mundane Made Awesome Irony Death Glare Wounded Gazelle Gambit Double Entendre Nice Guy Arc Words Disney Villain Death Up to Eleven Alliterative Name More Dakka Abusive Parents Everyone Has Standards Fate Worse than Death Faking the Dead Auto Erotica Five-Man Band My Greatest Failure Domestic Abuse Demonic Possession Curb-Stomp Battle Slap-Slap-Kiss Your Cheating Heart Annoying Younger Sibling Oh, Crap! 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They Really Do Love Each Other Mythology Gag He Knows Too Much Fiery Redhead World of Ham May–December Romance An Arm and a Leg Empathic Environment Zombie Stories Made of Iron Title Drop Video Credits Friend to All Children Character Development Awesome, but Impractical Air-Vent Passageway Adaptational Badass Coming-of-Age Story Early Installment Weirdness Romantic False Lead Scenery Gorn As You Know Visual Pun The Lancer Getting Crap Past the Radar Market-Based Title Big-Bad Ensemble "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Never Found the Body Red Shirt Accidental Murder Artistic License – History Would Hit a Girl Chuck Cunningham Syndrome As Himself Police are Useless Blatant Lies Red Eyes, Take Warning Casting Gag Vacation Films Eagleland Actor Allusion Blackmail Cain and Abel Police Brutality Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Chiaroscuro Loophole Abuse Eye Scream Heroic Sacrifice Humans Are Bastards Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Betty and Veronica Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Not So Different Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Deconstruction German Films Lock and Load Montage Knife Nut Drugs Are Bad Kubrick Stare No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Left the Background Music On Belligerent Sexual Tension Department of Redundancy Department Have a Gay Old Time Hong Kong Films Defrosting Ice Queen Pragmatic Villainy War Is Hell The '60s Soundtrack Dissonance Camp Gay Those Two Bad Guys Biopic Ungrateful Bastard Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Italian Films Epic Movie Fingore The Un-Reveal As the Good Book Says... Blood from the Mouth Woman in White Evil-Detecting Dog Villain Protagonist Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Hypocrite Canadian Movies The Reveal Fanservice Due to the Dead Broken Aesop Vomit Indiscretion Shot Take a Third Option MacGuffin Big Damn Heroes Dark Reprise Cassandra Truth Contrived Coincidence Exactly What It Says on the Tin Advertised Extra Take That! No Name Given Rich Bitch Despair Event Horizon Suddenly SHOUTING! 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Guy Alas, Poor Villain Anachronism Stew Lampshade Hanging Plucky Comic Relief Poor Communication Kills Age Lift Kick the Dog Drill Sergeant Nasty Easily Forgiven Psycho for Hire Unresolved Sexual Tension Storming the Castle Adaptational Heroism Shower Scene Evil Is Petty Reality Ensues Too Dumb to Live Expy Off-into-the-Distance Ending Mystery and Detective Films From Bad to Worse Facial Horror Gilligan Cut Better to Die than Be Killed Knight Templar Arranged Marriage Reckless Gun Usage All Just a Dream Scary Black Man The '90s I Need a Freaking Drink Moment Killer Dropped a Bridge on Him Even Evil Has Standards Crazy Jealous Guy Foregone Conclusion Sequel Escalation Sci-Fi Horror B-Movie Mind Screw Say My Name Reality Has No Subtitles I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Took a Level in Badass Japanese Films The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Tap on the Head Undying Loyalty Naked People Are Funny Determinator aka: The Determinator Freeze-Frame Bonus Foil Award-Bait Song Race Lift The Ditz Evil Sounds Deep The Great Depression Jerkass Has a Point Comically Missing the Point Unwitting Instigator of Doom Redemption Equals Death Evil Laugh Sequel Hook Documentary Pragmatic Adaptation Not So Stoic Black Comedy Rape Does This Remind You of Anything? The X of Y Fatal Flaw Badass Longcoat Bavarian Fire Drill Based on a True Story The Dragon Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Children Are Innocent Dogged Nice Guy Redshirt Army Beauty Is Never Tarnished Running Gag Call-Forward Token Minority Mistaken for Gay Arch-Enemy The Vamp Whole Plot Reference N-Word Privileges Spiteful Spit You Killed My Father For Want of a Nail Affectionate Parody Central Theme Artistic License – Physics Time Skip An Aesop Put on a Bus Be Careful What You Wish For Pretty in Mink Freudian Excuse Christmas Movies Index Bloodier and Gorier Television Movie Index Parental Neglect Riddle for the Ages Mad Scientist Bottomless Magazines timeperiod Adaptation Dye-Job All There in the Script Insistent Terminology 20 Minutes into the Future Novelization "Shaggy Dog" Story Fire-Forged Friends Sealed Evil in a Can Idiot Ball Foreshadowing Kill It with Fire Wretched Hive Asshole Victim A Date with Rosie Palms Neck Snap Make It Look Like an Accident Conspicuous CG The Bad Guy Wins Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Framing Device Face Death with Dignity Logo Joke Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Get Out! 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Non-Indicative Name Bond One-Liner Overprotective Dad Death by Adaptation Grievous Bottley Harm Attempted Rape Setting Update Took a Level in Jerkass Rated M for Manly Gender Flip Jerk with a Heart of Gold Spanner in the Works Hero of Another Story Gold Digger Married to the Job A Minor Kidroduction Adaptational Attractiveness Worthy Opponent I Did What I Had to Do Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Silence Is Golden Crapsack World Author Avatar Red Oni, Blue Oni She's Got Legs Calling the Old Man Out Bi the Way Unusual Euphemism Animal Title Index Combat Pragmatist Tranquil Fury Ironic Echo The Oner Older Than They Look Ambiguous Ending Eureka Moment Villain with Good Publicity Music Stories Fantasy Films Guns Akimbo Pretty Little Headshots Adult Fear Never Trust a Trailer Black Best Friend Male Frontal Nudity Large Ham "The Reason You Suck" Speech No OSHA Compliance Villain Ball Evil Brit Suspiciously Similar Substitute Heroic BSoD Karma Houdini The Cameo Those Two Guys Cool Shades Meaningful Name Catch-Phrase Small Name, Big Ego Back from the Dead Sanity Slippage Break the Cutie Same Language Dub Costume Porn Vomit Discretion Shot Deus ex Machina Face–Heel Turn Gone Horribly Right Body Horror Car Fu Big Fancy House Amusing Injuries Man on Fire Shut Up, Hannibal! Mugging the Monster Lighter and Softer Bare Your Midriff Re-Cut Sir Swears-a-Lot Faux Affably Evil Nice Hat Made of Explodium Badass Grandpa Kill 'em All Dwindling Party Rule of Symbolism Defiant to the End Mercy Kill Random Events Plot Meaningful Echo Antagonist Title Death of a Child As Long as It Sounds Foreign Action Girl Establishing Character Moment Wham Shot Improbable Aiming Skills Historical Villain Upgrade Hero Antagonist Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Chekhov's Skill The Dog Bites Back A God Am I Suspiciously Specific Denial Offscreen Teleportation Your Head A-Splode Badass in a Nice Suit Frame-Up Bowdlerise Bullying a Dragon Homage Tempting Fate Cool Old Guy Wrong Genre Savvy Dark and Troubled Past Spell My Name with an "S" Action Genre Card-Carrying Villain Cat Fight Training Montage Adaptation Distillation All for Nothing Not Quite Dead Dirty Coward What Happened to the Mouse? 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