Tropescilloscope: Redemption Equals Death

Heel–Face Turn followed by death. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Outrun the Fireball Cassandra Truth Exactly What It Says on the Tin Scare Chord Cat Scare The Reveal Eldritch Abomination Red Eyes, Take Warning Ominous Latin Chanting Adaptation Name Change Black Best Friend Cold-Blooded Torture "Awesome McCool" Name Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Madness Mantra The Mole Major Injury Underreaction Central Theme Belligerent Sexual Tension Woman in White The Dog Bites Back Rasputinian Death As Long as It Sounds Foreign Corpsing Expository Hairstyle Change Peek-a-Boo Corpse Jump Scare Exact Words Unreliable Narrator folderlabel Face Death with Dignity Covers Always Lie Big Brother Instinct Get Out! Cool Guns Easily Forgiven Deconstruction Rape as Drama Bad "Bad Acting" A.I. Is a Crapshoot Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! 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Shoot the Shaggy Dog Pimped-Out Dress Translation Convention No Name Given Unusually Uninteresting Sight Creator Cameo Crazy Jealous Guy Blood Knight Really Gets Around Frame-Up Off with His Head! Totally Radical Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Evil Laugh Skewed Priorities Fat Bastard I Need a Freaking Drink Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Serial Killer Wicked Cultured Break the Cutie Insult Backfire Tempting Fate Batman Gambit Jerkass Big Eater Dark Reprise Deus ex Machina Shout-Out Gone Horribly Right Rich Bitch Unusual Euphemism Trailers Always Spoil Irony Ascended Extra Affectionate Parody Sinister Minister Creepy Child Break the Haughty Scenery Porn From Bad to Worse Funny Background Event Gold Digger Brother–Sister Incest Red Herring Mr. Exposition Public Domain Feature Films Shower Scene The Stoner Disappeared Dad Disproportionate Retribution Oh, Crap! Beware the Nice Ones Nice Hat The Ghost Eiffel Tower Effect The Film of the Book Fatal Flaw Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Christmas Movies Index Last-Name Basis Betty and Veronica Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Rule of Funny She Cleans Up Nicely Department of Redundancy Department Disguised in Drag A Minor Kidroduction Manchild Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome In Medias Res Refuge in Audacity Faux Affably Evil Badass Longcoat Henpecked Husband Parental Substitute Fanservice Curse Cut Short Take That! Properly Paranoid One-Word Title Non-Indicative Name Man on Fire Age Lift Happily Married Cool Car Dramatic Irony Male Gaze Artistic License – Law Character Development Fire-Forged Friends Hypocrite Boom, Headshot! 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Bait-and-Switch Too Dumb to Live Arranged Marriage The Bad Guy Wins A Date with Rosie Palms Self-Deprecation Anti-Villain Red Oni, Blue Oni Brutal Honesty Famous Last Words Asshole Victim Science Fiction Films Cool Old Lady Morality Pet Evil Brit Music Stories Tranquil Fury Despair Event Horizon Country Matters Villainous Breakdown Sexy Discretion Shot Parental Neglect Would Hit a Girl And I Must Scream Only a Flesh Wound Psychological Thriller Humans Are Bastards Antagonist Title Hair-Trigger Temper Aluminum Christmas Trees Adult Fear Early Installment Weirdness Fun with Acronyms Adaptational Villainy Death by Irony Works Set in World War II War Is Hell Film Noir Index Parental Abandonment Pragmatic Villainy Evil Is Hammy Make It Look Like an Accident Suddenly SHOUTING! Heel Realization Ass Shove Darkest Hour How We Got Here You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Logo Joke Sports Stories All for Nothing Hooker with a Heart of Gold Kids Are Cruel The Atoner Almost Kiss Setting Update Better to Die than Be Killed Unspoken Plan Guarantee Death by Adaptation Be Careful What You Wish For Vampire Fiction Rousing Speech Depraved Bisexual Retcon Italian Films The Faceless Darker and Edgier Foreshadowing Green-Eyed Monster Conspicuous CG Dirty Old Man Product Placement Wounded Gazelle Gambit Poor Communication Kills The Brute The Remake Animal Motifs Stalker with a Crush The Starscream Grey and Gray Morality All Girls Want Bad Boys Wrong Genre Savvy Improbable Aiming Skills Heel–Face Turn Mr. Fanservice Recycled IN SPACE! Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Dressing as the Enemy Film Series Breaking the Fourth Wall Visual Pun Precision F-Strike Not So Above It All Reality Has No Subtitles Spanner in the Works Fanservice Extra Bavarian Fire Drill Fatal Family Photo Protagonist Title The Sociopath Obstructive Bureaucrat Taking the Bullet Heterosexual Life-Partners Offscreen Teleportation Abusive Parents Diabolus ex Machina Psychopathic Manchild Failed a Spot Check '80s Hair Mexican Standoff Comically Missing the Point Men Are the Expendable Gender Those Wacky Nazis Artistic License – Biology No Good Deed Goes Unpunished MacGuffin Cruel and Unusual Death Pay Evil unto Evil Butt-Monkey Those Two Bad Guys Hidden Depths Adorkable Mugging the Monster Big Damn Heroes All There in the Script Death Glare Friend to All Children Pet the Dog Homage Beard of Evil Guile Hero "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Plot Hole Ironic Echo Took a Level in Badass Kill It with Fire Defiant to the End Broken Aesop Interrupted Suicide Arch-Enemy Idiot Ball Intergenerational Friendship Hero Antagonist Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Corrupt Corporate Executive Same Language Dub Laser-Guided Karma Spiritual Successor The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Everyone Has Standards Military and Warfare Films Hero of Another Story Light Is Not Good Stealth Pun Fate Worse than Death I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Truth in Television One Steve Limit Suspiciously Specific Denial Re-Cut Pragmatic Adaptation Final Girl Shell-Shocked Veteran Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Casting Gag Intrepid Reporter Determinator aka: The Determinator Immune to Bullets Does Not Like Shoes Blatant Lies Book-Ends The Load Anachronism Stew Jerk Jock Nothing Is Scarier Evil Plan Car Fu Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Even Evil Has Standards Retired Badass Affably Evil Riddle for the Ages Time Skip Gainax Ending The Chick Rewatch Bonus Adaptation Expansion Accidental Misnaming Smoking Is Cool Manic Pixie Dream Girl Author Appeal Narrator Chiaroscuro Imagine Spot No-Sell Genre Shift After the End Gorn Badass Normal Fourth Date Marriage German Films Never Found the Body Never My Fault Whole Plot Reference Bad Boss Sequel Escalation Market-Based Title Training Montage The Hero Evil-Detecting Dog Leave the Camera Running Beta Couple Needs Wiki Magic Love Getting Crap Past the Radar Psycho for Hire Creative Closing Credits Blood from the Mouth Politically Incorrect Villain Reasonable Authority Figure Stuff Blowing Up Parental Incest Celebrity Paradox Sci-Fi Horror Adults Are Useless All Just a Dream Kick the Dog Fake Shemp Double-Meaning Title Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Defrosting Ice Queen Early-Bird Cameo Hong Kong Films Sadistic Choice Documentary Artistic License – Geography Facial Horror The Stinger Not So Stoic My God, What Have I Done? Bloodless Carnage Older Than They Look Gilligan Cut Did Not Get the Girl The '90s In the Back Bowdlerise Fantasy Films Manly Tears An Aesop Bound and Gagged Face–Heel Turn You Have Failed Me Unresolved Sexual Tension Pre-Mortem One-Liner The Big Guy Shut Up, Hannibal! Big Bad Duumvirate La Résistance Romantic Comedy Super Strength Took a Level in Jerkass Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Cat Fight Catapult Nightmare Ambiguous Ending Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Card-Carrying Villain Bloodier and Gorier Disney Death Half the Man He Used to Be Stock Footage Reckless Gun Usage Anyone Can Die Determinator N-Word Privileges Foregone Conclusion Manipulative Bastard The Quiet One Captain Obvious Would Hurt a Child Anachronic Order Ungrateful Bastard No Antagonist Paper-Thin Disguise Mistaken for Gay Thriller As the Good Book Says... Novelization The Alcoholic Your Cheating Heart Jerkass Has a Point Rated M for Manly Anti-Hero Knife Nut Moment Killer Deadpan Snarker More Dakka Token Minority Mind Screw Noodle Incident Dumb Blonde Actor Allusion Slap-Slap-Kiss Even Evil Has Loved Ones Drugs Are Bad Laughing Mad The Place Evil Is Petty As Himself Scary Black Man Yandere Not Using the "Z" Word Earn Your Happy Ending Freudian Excuse In Name Only Silent Movie Death Seeker Reality Ensues "Shaggy Dog" Story Cain and Abel Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Call-Back Chewing the Scenery Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene The Voiceless Flipping the Bird Crapsack World I'm a Humanitarian Freeze-Frame Bonus Eagleland Amusing Injuries Vitriolic Best Buds Drowning My Sorrows Artistic License – Military Take a Third Option Establishing Character Moment Didn't Think This Through Those Two Guys Our Vampires Are Different The Cavalry Superhero Bland-Name Product Video Credits Daylight Horror Jitter Cam Composite Character Badass in a Nice Suit Wretched Hive Plucky Comic Relief Up to Eleven Obviously Evil Becoming the Mask Insane Troll Logic Only in It for the Money The Musical Chase Scene An Axe to Grind Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Sir Swears-a-Lot Slasher Smile Deal with the Devil It's All About Me Sequel Hook Action Girl Say My Name