Tropescilloscope: Redemption Equals Death

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

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Big Bad "Well Done, Son!" Guy Villain with Good Publicity Our Zombies Are Different The Cavalry Enemy Mine Kick the Son of a Bitch Sequel Escalation Villain Opening Scene Ironic Echo Back from the Dead Mugging the Monster Reasonable Authority Figure "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Exactly What It Says on the Tin Here We Go Again! Body Horror Disappeared Dad The Sociopath Humiliation Conga I'm a Humanitarian Badass Normal Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Loads and Loads of Characters Re-Cut Hate Sink Badass Longcoat Oh, Crap! 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Fake Shemp Manchild Bowdlerise Bald of Evil Retired Badass Poor Communication Kills There Is No Kill Like Overkill Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking All There in the Manual Wicked Cultured Eureka Moment Narrator Unresolved Sexual Tension Bittersweet Ending The Power of Love Twist Ending Pimped-Out Dress Insistent Terminology Does This Remind You of Anything? Even Evil Has Loved Ones Mighty Whitey Smug Snake Science Fiction Films Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Put on a Bus Danny Peary Cult Movies List Cool Old Lady As Himself Dull Surprise Insult Backfire Ms. Fanservice Pretty Little Headshots War Is Hell Drugs Are Bad Dissonant Serenity Hope Spot Skewed Priorities Your Cheating Heart Pragmatic Villainy Badass Grandpa Freudian Excuse Central Theme Framing Device Moment Killer Casting Gag Romantic Comedy Spell My Name with an "S" Curb-Stomp Battle Big-Bad Ensemble Sequel Hook Heel Realization Grey and Gray Morality Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Room Full of Crazy You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Evil Is Petty Bare Your Midriff The '50s Gone Horribly Right Kubrick Stare Cluster F-Bomb Sci-Fi Horror This Is Gonna Suck Blatant Lies La Résistance Beta Couple Corpsing Intergenerational Friendship Motor Mouth Those Wacky Nazis Action Genre Not So Above It All Politically Incorrect Villain Rape as Drama Stealth Hi/Bye Mr. Exposition Italian Films Australian Movies Left the Background Music On Undying Loyalty Bottomless Magazines Rule of Symbolism Big Brother Instinct The Un-Reveal Not So Stoic Gender Flip Celebrity Paradox Dramatic Irony Adaptational Heroism Facial Horror Shower Scene Even Evil Has Standards B-Movie Sole Survivor Be Careful What You Wish For Evil Is Hammy No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Adaptation Expansion Stuff Blowing Up May–December Romance folderlabel Rated M for Manly Ambiguously Gay Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Department of Redundancy Department And Starring Death Seeker Brainless Beauty Took a Level in Jerkass Big Applesauce Reality Ensues Slasher Movie Heroic BSoD Whole Plot Reference Same Language Dub Crucified Hero Shot An Arm and a Leg British Films Cruel and Unusual Death Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Death of a Child Man on Fire Cat Scare Jitter Cam Romantic False Lead Suspiciously Similar Substitute Woman Scorned Japanese Films Slasher Smile Stock Footage Unspoken Plan Guarantee Hell Is That Noise Unwitting Instigator of Doom Slashed Throat Berserk Button Villainous Breakdown Immune to Bullets Beard of Evil Jerkass Ascended Extra Genre Throwback Curse Cut Short Easily Forgiven Anyone Can Die Gratuitous English Disney Death Face–Heel Turn Names to Run Away from Really Fast Fantastic Racism Handicapped Badass Face Death with Dignity Sir Swears-a-Lot Screw This, I'm Outta Here! 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Bad Boss Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Anti-Hero Mood Whiplash Beware the Nice Ones The Atoner Brick Joke The Great Depression Really Gets Around Aluminum Christmas Trees Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Jump Scare Laser-Guided Karma Defrosting Ice Queen Arch-Enemy The Remake Camera Abuse Jerk with a Heart of Gold Bavarian Fire Drill Accidental Misnaming Adaptation Dye-Job Take a Third Option I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Rewatch Bonus Conspicuous CG Armor-Piercing Question Neck Lift A Date with Rosie Palms Mooks Evil Brit All Girls Want Bad Boys Frame-Up The Stinger Eldritch Abomination Jerk Jock The Ghost Faking the Dead The Bad Guy Wins Final Girl Papa Wolf Sassy Black Woman All Men Are Perverts Title Drop Demonic Possession The Casanova Foreshadowing Trailers Always Spoil Bloodless Carnage Documentary Killed Mid-Sentence Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Improvised Weapon The Dreaded Double Entendre Betty and Veronica She's Got Legs Market-Based Title Needs Wiki Magic Love Red Right Hand Animal Motifs Red Herring I Need a Freaking Drink Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer N-Word Privileges Scenery Gorn As Long as It Sounds Foreign Shipper on Deck Silence Is Golden Red Oni, Blue Oni Never Trust a Trailer Manipulative Bastard Stepford Smiler Deus ex Machina Deadpan Snarker Covers Always Lie Older Than They Look Rousing Speech Love Triangle Dark and Troubled Past Too Dumb to Live The Lancer Does Not Like Shoes Rasputinian Death Male Gaze Homage Rich Bitch Intrepid Reporter Lampshade Hanging Punch-Clock Villain Thriller The End... Or Is It? Red Shirt Actually Pretty Funny Wham Shot The Hero As the Good Book Says... Kill 'em All Greater-Scope Villain Depraved Bisexual Obstructive Bureaucrat A.I. Is a Crapshoot Anachronism Stew Dumb Blonde Cool Car Corrupt Corporate Executive Demoted to Extra Tap on the Head A God Am I Belligerent Sexual Tension Coming-of-Age Story Alliterative Name Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Broken Bird Running Gag Bullying a Dragon Logo Joke Broken Pedestal Large Ham Cowboy Cop Drill Sergeant Nasty Zombie Stories And I Must Scream Four-Temperament Ensemble Stealth Pun The Dragon Anguished Declaration of Love Heel–Face Turn The '80s Psychopathic Manchild Wrong Genre Savvy Empathic Environment Recycled IN SPACE! Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Amusing Injuries Author Avatar Fate Worse than Death Apocalypse How Dramedy Made of Explodium Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Martial Arts Movie Redshirt Army Adult Fear Playing Gertrude Meet Cute Interrupted Suicide Freeze-Frame Bonus Unusually Uninteresting Sight Breaking the Fourth Wall For the Evulz Foil Retcon Shut Up, Hannibal! Extreme Doormat Wham Line How We Got Here Big Damn Heroes Precision F-Strike Driven to Suicide Imagine Spot Defiant to the End My Beloved Smother Throwing Your Sword Always Works What You Are in the Dark Bilingual Bonus Agony of the Feet Author Appeal Not What It Looks Like An Aesop Tempting Fate Friend to All Children "Awesome McCool" Name Adaptation Name Change Villain Protagonist Action Girl Mistaken for Gay Sports Stories Film Series Ripped from the Headlines Fat Bastard Your Head A-Splode Fiery Redhead Chekhov's Skill The Brute Kids Are Cruel Guile Hero Superhero Music Stories She Cleans Up Nicely Redemption Equals Death Overly Long Gag The Stoic Scary Black Man Random Events Plot Off with His Head! Soundtrack Dissonance Punny Name Instant Death Bullet Properly Paranoid Arranged Marriage Fanservice Extra Vampire Fiction Worthy Opponent Ax-Crazy Rule of Cool Air-Vent Passageway Cool Shades Destination Defenestration Mr. Fanservice Have a Gay Old Time Black Best Friend Beauty Is Never Tarnished Black Dude Dies First Only Sane Man Meaningful Echo Every Car Is a Pinto Developing Doomed Characters The Stoner Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Anti-Villain Truth in Television Red Eyes, Take Warning Mundane Made Awesome The Alleged Car Broken Aesop Artistic License – Physics Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Translation Convention Camp Gay Hypocrite The Lost Lenore For Want of a Nail Malevolent Masked Men Protagonist Title Important Haircut Dogged Nice Guy Make It Look Like an Accident Hidden Depths Ragtag Bunch of Misfits World of Ham Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Good Is Not Nice Pet the Dog Pretty in Mink Did Not Get the Girl Closed Circle Russian Films Police are Useless Annoying Younger Sibling Those Two Bad Guys Attempted Rape Break the Haughty My God, What Have I Done? Call-Forward Neck Snap Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie '80s Hair Adults Are Useless I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Historical Hero Upgrade My Greatest Failure The Voiceless Overprotective Dad Chekhov's Gun Let's Get Dangerous! Take That! Posthumous Character The Load Self-Deprecation Our Vampires Are Different Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! 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Slap-Slap-Kiss Scenery Porn The '70s Blood Knight No Antagonist Adaptation Distillation The Musical No OSHA Compliance Evil vs. Evil Adaptational Badass Parental Abandonment You Have Failed Me Works Set in World War II Meaningful Background Event Insane Troll Logic Artistic License – Law Gory Discretion Shot Age Lift Race Lift Bring My Brown Pants Manic Pixie Dream Girl A Minor Kidroduction Love at First Sight Plucky Comic Relief Suspiciously Specific Denial Straight Gay Retirony Spiritual Successor Spared by the Adaptation Eye Scream Novelization Credits Gag Fatal Flaw Psycho for Hire Gilligan Cut Card-Carrying Villain Nice Hat Victoria's Secret Compartment Dark Action Girl Informed Ability What Happened to the Mouse? Deconstruction Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Well-Intentioned Extremist Death by Adaptation Break the Cutie Totally Radical Crazy Jealous Guy Contrived Coincidence The Quiet One Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Determinator Non-Indicative Name Animal Title Index Chase Scene Plot Hole Dark Is Not Evil Artistic License – Biology One-Word Title Hollywood Darkness Fantasy Films Ungrateful Bastard Catch-Phrase Show Within a Show Index of Film Westerns Police Brutality Shown Their Work Black Comedy Rape Film Noir Index Honor Before Reason The Cameo No Ending Would Hurt a Child Lock and Load Montage The Alcoholic Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Flipping the Bird Offscreen Teleportation Monumental Damage Henpecked Husband Bi the Way Leitmotif Bland-Name Product Hollywood Law Never My Fault Award-Bait Song Disguised in Drag Smoking Is Cool Adorkable Eyepatch of Power Pyrrhic Victory "The Reason You Suck" Speech Evil-Detecting Dog Silent Movie Adaptational Villainy Small Name, Big Ego Death by Sex Ghost Fiction Cain and Abel It's All About Me Evil Laugh Not So Different Flashback Very Loosely Based on a True Story Chekhov's Gunman 20 Minutes into the Future Creative Closing Credits Adaptational Attractiveness Exact Words Dual Wielding Dark Reprise I Have Your Wife Bloodier and Gorier Bad "Bad Acting" Dwindling Party Sadistic Choice All for Nothing Spanner in the Works Roaring Rampage of Revenge No-Sell Faux Affably Evil No Celebrities Were Harmed Once More, with Clarity! Noodle Incident Woman in White Taking the Bullet It's Personal Domestic Abuse Real Life Writes the Plot You Killed My Father Serious Business Black Comedy Hero of Another Story Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Combat Pragmatist Gorn Cat Fight Artistic License – History Genre Shift Anachronic Order Meaningful Name Psychological Thriller Groin Attack Time Skip Artistic License – Gun Safety