Tropescilloscope: Taking You with Me

Killing your killer in your final moments. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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More Tropes Stepford Smiler Rule of Cool Cool Guns Up to Eleven Armor-Piercing Question British Films Ripped from the Headlines Pragmatic Villainy Genre Savvy Leave the Camera Running Foregone Conclusion Decoy Protagonist Hell Is That Noise Big Bad Duumvirate Immune to Bullets Big Applesauce Downer Ending Sanity Slippage Stealth Hi/Bye Spared by the Adaptation Obstructive Bureaucrat Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" "Awesome McCool" Name Kids Are Cruel Crapsack World Big Bad Big Brother Instinct Adults Are Useless Artistic License – Gun Safety Soft Glass Early-Bird Cameo Anti-Villain Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Reality Ensues Guns Akimbo Every Car Is a Pinto Fish out of Water Jerkass Captain Ersatz Anachronism Stew Hero of Another Story Your Cheating Heart Chekhov's Gun Last-Name Basis Paper-Thin Disguise Hong Kong Films Eiffel Tower Effect Cat Fight He Knows Too Much Exact Words Serious Business Naked People Are Funny Taking the Bullet Married to the Job Punny Name Black Comedy Mystery and Detective Films Gilligan Cut Badass Bookworm Adaptational Villainy Manly Tears No-Holds-Barred Beatdown What Happened to the Mouse? Psycho for Hire Beauty Is Never Tarnished Brutal Honesty Storming the Castle Our Vampires Are Different Combat Pragmatist The Dragon folderlabel Broken Bird Video Credits The Power of Love Dirty Old Man Trailers Always Spoil After the End Television Movie Index Alliterative Name Fate Worse than Death No Ending Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Blonde, Brunette, Redhead The Chessmaster Bland-Name Product Jitter Cam Bury Your Gays The Ghost Gory Discretion Shot Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies It Can Think Freeze-Frame Bonus Hair-Trigger Temper Killed Mid-Sentence The Brute Science Fiction Films Refuge in Audacity Undying Loyalty Catapult Nightmare Fan Disservice Cain and Abel The Stinger Plucky Comic Relief Dark Action Girl Ship Tease Red Oni, Blue Oni Insult Backfire Hoist by His Own Petard Spiritual Successor Same Language Dub Romantic False Lead Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Central Theme Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Good Is Not Nice Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Animated Credits Opening Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Canadian Movies Evil Brit Creative Closing Credits What You Are in the Dark Historical-Domain Character Adapted Out Very Loosely Based on a True Story Apocalypse How Properly Paranoid Adorkable Pay Evil unto Evil Toplessness from the Back The Reveal Revenge Knight Templar Destination Defenestration Children Are Innocent Shoot the Shaggy Dog Adult Fear Retired Badass Suspiciously Similar Substitute Affectionate Parody Easily Forgiven Morality Pet Cool Old Lady Frame-Up MacGuffin Evil Plan Dramedy Would Hurt a Child Fake Shemp Victoria's Secret Compartment The Alcoholic Rated M for Manly Jerkass Has a Point Kill It with Fire Serial Killer Five-Man Band Almost Kiss Straight Gay Politically Incorrect Villain Mooks A Father to His Men Fatal Family Photo Canon Foreigner Action Genre Naïve Newcomer Developing Doomed Characters Ambiguously Gay Non-Indicative Name For Want of a Nail Smug Snake Freudian Excuse Our Zombies Are Different Shut Up, Hannibal! Composite Character Nice Guy Big-Bad Ensemble Took a Level in Badass Bloodless Carnage Sci-Fi Horror The Vamp Affably Evil "Shaggy Dog" Story Make It Look Like an Accident Kick the Son of a Bitch Nice Hat The Mafia Credits Gag Four-Temperament Ensemble Mythology Gag Author Avatar Broken Pedestal Call-Back Intergenerational Friendship Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Adaptation Name Change Gorn Breaking the Fourth Wall Cruel and Unusual Death Sequel Hook Big Damn Heroes Batman Gambit Dying Moment of Awesome Adaptation Distillation Abhorrent Admirer And I Must Scream Chekhov's Gunman Insane Troll Logic Gainax Ending Black Comedy Rape Exactly What It Says on the Tin The Lancer Leitmotif La Résistance Retcon Cool Shades Male Gaze Hero Antagonist Eye Scream Funny Foreigner Evil Is Hammy Artistic License – Geography Cool Old Guy Eagleland Diabolus ex Machina Cat Scare Italian Films Sole Survivor Interrupted Suicide Deconstruction The Musical Groin Attack Scenery Porn Not So Stoic Epic Fail All for Nothing Laughing Mad Boom, Headshot! Artistic License – History Bilingual Bonus Drill Sergeant Nasty Ironic Echo Sassy Black Woman Adaptation Expansion Slashed Throat Deadpan Snarker Corpsing Kill 'em All Horror Films Animal Motifs Race Against the Clock All There in the Manual Meaningful Name Race Lift Totally Radical Drives Like Crazy Curb-Stomp Battle A God Am I Danny Peary Cult Movies List Flashback Scary Black Man All There in the Script All Just a Dream Fainting Idiot Ball An Aesop And Starring Neck Lift Fingore Chiaroscuro Amusing Injuries Really Gets Around A.I. Is a Crapshoot Film Noir Index Let's Get Dangerous! Beware the Nice Ones Stylistic Suck Babies Ever After Honor Before Reason Take a Third Option Berserk Button Deliberate Values Dissonance Even Evil Has Loved Ones Pretty in Mink Bad "Bad Acting" Fantastic Racism As the Good Book Says... Bound and Gagged Hypocritical Humor Heroic BSoD Creator Cameo Greater-Scope Villain Love at First Sight I Did What I Had to Do Bar Brawl Pre-Mortem One-Liner Dissonant Serenity Bad Boss Film Series The Voiceless Riddle for the Ages Dark and Troubled Past Humans Are Bastards Disproportionate Retribution Time Skip Reality Has No Subtitles The Bully Kick the Dog The '50s The Cameo Those Two Bad Guys Arranged Marriage Aside Glance "Well Done, Son!" Guy Romantic Comedy Those Two Guys Death by Irony Spell My Name with an "S" Foreshadowing The Sociopath Actually Pretty Funny Chase Scene Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Spanner in the Works Only a Flesh Wound I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Action Girl Continuity Nod Pimped-Out Dress Large Ham Precision F-Strike Faking the Dead Reasonable Authority Figure Names to Run Away from Really Fast Big Fancy House Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Mighty Whitey Getting Crap Past the Radar Public Domain Feature Films Fanservice Extra Playing Gertrude Brother–Sister Incest Chewing the Scenery Be Careful What You Wish For Empathic Environment Suspiciously Specific Denial Alpha Bitch Sir Swears-a-Lot Flipping the Bird In the Back Betty and Veronica Distracted by the Sexy Evil Is Petty Mama Bear Advertised Extra No Celebrities Were Harmed Call-Forward Historical Hero Upgrade Poor Communication Kills Fat Bastard Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold French Films Better to Die than Be Killed The Faceless Disguised in Drag Happily Married Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Rousing Speech Face Death with Dignity Evil Sounds Deep Cluster F-Bomb Match Cut The Ace Dirty Coward Action Survivor Translation Convention Unusual Euphemism Anyone Can Die Only in It for the Money Imagine Spot Framing Device Death Seeker Jerk with a Heart of Gold The '70s Martial Arts Movie Informed Ability The Stoner Papa Wolf Tranquil Fury Stalker with a Crush Eureka Moment Adaptational Badass Lighter and Softer Brick Joke Manipulative Bastard Costume Porn Recycled IN SPACE! Crazy Jealous Guy The Smurfette Principle Guile Hero Those Wacky Nazis Monumental Damage Shirtless Scene Redemption Equals Death Police are Useless Setting Update Anguished Declaration of Love Face–Heel Turn Despair Event Horizon Asshole Victim He Who Fights Monsters Vomit Indiscretion Shot Does This Remind You of Anything? Foil Sadistic Choice Zombie Stories Ghost Fiction Documentary Sequel Escalation Shown Their Work The Lost Lenore The X of Y Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! The Place Cold-Blooded Torture Vampire Fiction All Girls Want Bad Boys N-Word Privileges True Companions Show Within a Show O.O.C. Is Serious Business And the Adventure Continues Femme Fatale Corrupt Corporate Executive Insistent Terminology Catch-Phrase Dies Wide Open An Arm and a Leg Off with His Head! The Load Adaptational Heroism Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Scenery Gorn Ambiguous Disorder Disney Death Fourth Date Marriage Badass Normal Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Training Montage Curse Cut Short World of Ham Christmas Movies Index Novelization Have a Gay Old Time Motor Mouth Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Meaningful Background Event Fiery Redhead Knife Nut Woman in White Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Put on a Bus timeperiod The Casanova Ambiguous Ending Air-Vent Passageway Domestic Abuse Pyrrhic Victory Drowning My Sorrows Annoying Younger Sibling Amoral Attorney Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Older Than They Look Adaptation Dye-Job Rich Bitch Calling the Old Man Out Say My Name For the Evulz Authority Equals Asskicking Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Antagonist Title Aluminum Christmas Trees Grievous Bottley Harm Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie The Chick Conspicuous CG Not Even Bothering with the Accent Bloody Hilarious Vomit Discretion Shot Logo Joke Card-Carrying Villain Homage Military and Warfare Films Shout-Out Overprotective Dad Camera Abuse Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Unreliable Narrator Intrepid Reporter Leaning on the Fourth Wall Men Are the Expendable Gender Your Head A-Splode Psychological Thriller Bowdlerise Only Known by Their Nickname The '90s Bi the Way Lock and Load Montage Super Strength Accidental Murder Dark Reprise The Bad Guy Wins Heroic Sacrifice Break the Cutie Peek-a-Boo Corpse Half the Man He Used to Be Not What It Looks Like Tempting Fate Ms. Fanservice Ungrateful Bastard Casting Gag Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Mundane Made Awesome Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Stock Footage Worthy Opponent Overly Long Gag She Cleans Up Nicely Visual Pun Hidden Depths What the Hell, Hero? Even Evil Has Standards Villain with Good Publicity Blackmail Bald of Evil Not Using the "Z" Word Narrator Man on Fire Deliberately Monochrome Celebrity Paradox No Antagonist Defrosting Ice Queen Superhero The Stoic Didn't Think This Through Manic Pixie Dream Girl Offscreen Moment of Awesome Double-Meaning Title The Dog Bites Back Taking You with Me Manchild Male Frontal Nudity The Hero Would Hit a Girl Light Is Not Good Badass Grandpa Mistaken for Gay Shower Scene Anachronic Order Important Haircut Demoted to Extra B-Movie Missing Mom Film Noir Madness Mantra Ascended Extra Real Life Heterosexual Life-Partners Back from the Dead Abusive Parents Mad Scientist No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Red Eyes, Take Warning The Mole "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue You Have Failed Me Mood Whiplash Line-of-Sight Name Damsel in Distress Famous Last Words Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Bolivian Army Ending Index of Film Westerns Random Events Plot Obviously Evil Arch-Enemy In Name Only Henpecked Husband Extreme Doormat Off-into-the-Distance Ending Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Wicked Cultured Book-Ends Final Girl Protagonist Title It Will Never Catch On Daylight Horror Moment Killer Gender Flip The '80s Green-Eyed Monster Malevolent Masked Men "The Reason You Suck" Speech Dramatic Irony Hypocrite Japanese Films Token Minority Soundtrack Dissonance Never Trust a Trailer Wounded Gazelle Gambit Fun with Acronyms Daddy's Girl In Medias Res Market-Based Title Woman Scorned Animal Title Index Wretched Hive Badass Boast Gratuitous English NO INDOOR VOICE Epic Movie Early Installment Weirdness Reckless Gun Usage Meet Cute Camp Gay Unresolved Sexual Tension Sacrificial Lion You Have Outlived Your Usefulness As You Know Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Department of Redundancy Department Historical Villain Upgrade Wham Line Determinator Ominous Latin Chanting Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Handicapped Badass Obfuscating Stupidity Silence Is Golden Parental Neglect The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Artistic License – Military There Is No Kill Like Overkill May–December Romance The Smart Guy One-Word Title Agony of the Feet Car Fu Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Dramatic Gun Cock Red Right Hand Belligerent Sexual Tension Dirty Cop Jerk Jock Hollywood Law Bavarian Fire Drill Captain Obvious Cowboy Cop Black Dude Dies First Beta Couple The Big Guy Drugs Are Bad Death by Adaptation As Himself Real Life Writes the Plot Red Herring Evil vs. Evil Biopic I Need a Freaking Drink Only One Name Police Brutality Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Kubrick Stare The Un-Reveal Fire-Forged Friends Only Sane Man Hate Sink Hooker with a Heart of Gold Genre Shift Truth in Television Not So Above It All Author Appeal Sinister Minister Evil Laugh Vacation Films Double Entendre Mr. Fanservice Disney Villain Death Awesome, but Impractical Artistic License – Law Wham Shot The Starscream Dwindling Party Loophole Abuse She's Got Legs Mercy Kill Karmic Death Redshirt Army Chekhov's Skill The Great Depression Jump Scare Evil-Detecting Dog Maybe Ever After Bring My Brown Pants I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Skewed Priorities Pet the Dog Once More, with Clarity! Driven to Suicide Stealth Pun Rewatch Bonus Grey and Gray Morality An Axe to Grind The End... Or Is It? Well-Intentioned Extremist Award-Bait Song Determinator aka: The Determinator Rasputinian Death Bare Your Midriff Becoming the Mask Love Triangle Death Glare Sports Stories Contrived Coincidence Comically Missing the Point Dogged Nice Guy Death by Sex Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas A Date with Rosie Palms Actor Allusion Together in Death Twist Ending Villain Ball Lampshade Hanging Villain Song Posthumous Character You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Not Quite Dead Body Horror Word of God Here We Go Again! Cassandra Truth Rule of Funny Outrun the Fireball Dull Surprise The Remake Blood from the Mouth Australian Movies Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Dropped a Bridge on Him Never My Fault Dutch Angle Bittersweet Ending Genre Throwback Laser-Guided Karma Age Lift Mugging the Monster Cloudcuckoolander Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Pragmatic Adaptation Sealed Evil in a Can More Dakka Meaningful Echo Darker and Edgier Based on a True Story Heel–Face Turn Enemy Mine Humiliation Conga Ass Shove Slasher Smile Suddenly SHOUTING! Black and Gray Morality Reality Is Unrealistic Roaring Rampage of Revenge Mind Screw Rule of Three Fatal Flaw Red Shirt Country Matters Friend to All Children Bloodier and Gorier My Beloved Smother Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane The Alleged Car Bullying a Dragon Artistic License – Biology Stuff Blowing Up The Atoner Bait-and-Switch My Greatest Failure Self-Deprecation I'm a Humanitarian Left the Background Music On Vitriolic Best Buds All Men Are Perverts The Dreaded The '60s I Have Your Wife Sexy Discretion Shot Made of Iron Smoking Is Cool Badass Longcoat Mexican Standoff Neck Snap Anti-Hero Heel Realization Establishing Character Moment Improbable Aiming Skills Made of Explodium Plot Hole Fanservice Big "NO!" Villain Protagonist Did Not Get the Girl Dressing as the Enemy Crucified Hero Shot Improbable Weapon User The Quiet One Loads and Loads of Characters Character Development My God, What Have I Done? Tap on the Head Oh, Crap! Due to the Dead Re-Cut Funny Background Event Blatant Lies 20 Minutes into the Future Gold Digger Offscreen Teleportation Parental Substitute Music Stories One Steve Limit Major Injury Underreaction Break the Haughty You Killed My Father Arc Words Bottomless Magazines Spiteful Spit It's All About Me From Nobody to Nightmare Facial Horror Works Set in World War II Expository Hairstyle Change Black Best Friend Shipper on Deck Get Out! Broken Aesop War Is Hell Small Name, Big Ego Instant Death Bullet Faux Affably Evil Closed Circle Does Not Like Shoes Villain Opening Scene Scare Chord Hollywood Darkness Cool Car Creepy Child Improvised Weapon '80s Hair Product Placement Historical In-Joke Eyepatch of Power Bond Villain Stupidity Darkest Hour Death of a Child Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Irony Blood Knight Action Prologue BFG Auto Erotica Rape as Drama Room Full of Crazy Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Villainous Breakdown Punch-Clock Villain Psychopathic Manchild Heroes Want Redheads This Is Gonna Suck Crazy-Prepared Never Found the Body Nothing Is Scarier Shell-Shocked Veteran One-Man Army Artistic License – Physics Thriller Parental Incest Parental Abandonment It's Personal No OSHA Compliance Fantasy Films Slasher Movie Rule of Symbolism Horror Comedy Earn Your Happy Ending Expy Brainless Beauty No-Sell Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Extremely Short Timespan How We Got Here The Film of the Book Star-Crossed Lovers Unspoken Plan Guarantee Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Alas, Poor Villain Attempted Rape Beard of Evil Slap-Slap-Kiss Dual Wielding Needs Wiki Magic Love No Name Given The Ditz Tagline Title Drop The Hero Dies Adaptational Attractiveness Badass in a Nice Suit Dark Is Not Evil Unwitting Instigator of Doom Deus ex Machina Throwing Your Sword Always Works Accidental Misnaming Defiant to the End Took a Level in Jerkass Karma Houdini Mr. Exposition Eldritch Abomination A Minor Kidroduction Not So Different Butt-Monkey Bond One-Liner Pretty Little Headshots Dumb Blonde The Oner Unusually Uninteresting Sight The Cavalry Big Eater Take That! As Long as It Sounds Foreign Running Gag Retirony Evil Counterpart Ax-Crazy Hope Spot From Bad to Worse Failed a Spot Check Gone Horribly Right Whole Plot Reference Disappeared Dad Covers Always Lie Coming-of-Age Story German Films Yandere Deal with the Devil Bunny-Ears Lawyer Noodle Incident Wrong Genre Savvy Too Dumb to Live Russian Films Demonic Possession Silent Movie Implacable Man Everyone Has Standards Depraved Bisexual