Tropescilloscope: Slashed Throat

It's a 'nice', efficient, bloody way to kill someone (read more at tvtropes.org)

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