Tropescilloscope: Taking You with Me

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

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Guy Unreliable Narrator Mercy Kill Final Girl Homage Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Department of Redundancy Department Eiffel Tower Effect Actor Allusion Earn Your Happy Ending Not Even Bothering with the Accent Action Survivor Greater-Scope Villain Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies The Faceless Anti-Villain Plucky Comic Relief Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Playing Gertrude Death Seeker Gold Digger Genre Throwback Brick Joke Cat Fight Boom, Headshot! Pretty in Mink Plot Hole Authority Equals Asskicking Storming the Castle Eldritch Abomination Television Movie Index Maybe Ever After Serious Business Scenery Gorn Retirony Blatant Lies Leave the Camera Running Hope Spot Award-Bait Song Closed Circle Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Catapult Nightmare Psycho for Hire Evil Is Petty Dual Wielding Even Evil Has Standards Butt-Monkey Green-Eyed Monster Alpha Bitch Evil-Detecting Dog Spiritual Successor Faux Affably Evil Mad Scientist Re-Cut Intrepid Reporter Film Noir Index The Brute Politically Incorrect Villain Animal Motifs Extremely Short Timespan Kill 'em All Expy Bury Your Gays Shout-Out Fatal Flaw Sanity Slippage Meaningful Background Event Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Shoot the Shaggy Dog Death Glare Imagine Spot Martial Arts Movie The Reveal Foregone Conclusion The Remake An Arm and a Leg Adapted Out Reality Has No Subtitles Needs Wiki Magic Love You Have Failed Me Villain with Good Publicity Light Is Not Good Would Hit a Girl Nice Hat Implacable Man Drill Sergeant Nasty Frame-Up Bring My Brown Pants Psychological Thriller Historical Villain Upgrade Race Against the Clock Karmic Death Vomit Indiscretion Shot Once More, with Clarity! Ass Shove Crucified Hero Shot Naked People Are Funny All There in the Script Apocalypse How Grey and Gray Morality Take That! Military and Warfare Films Together in Death Grievous Bottley Harm Dogged Nice Guy Death by Adaptation Recycled IN SPACE! 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As Long as It Sounds Foreign Evil Counterpart Dropped a Bridge on Him Sacrificial Lion Fourth Date Marriage The Lost Lenore Laser-Guided Karma Christmas Movies Index I'm a Humanitarian Animated Credits Opening Morality Pet Dumb Blonde Lighter and Softer Important Haircut Police are Useless Gender Flip Our Vampires Are Different Drugs Are Bad Credits Gag Kill It with Fire Men Are the Expendable Gender Totally Radical Madness Mantra Artistic License – Biology Punctuated! For! Emphasis! In Name Only I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Male Frontal Nudity Horror Comedy Jerk Jock Too Dumb to Live Leaning on the Fourth Wall Shirtless Scene "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Historical-Domain Character folderlabel Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Getting Crap Past the Radar Pet the Dog Actually Pretty Funny Camp Gay Left the Background Music On Villain Protagonist Dark Is Not Evil Manchild Broken Bird All for Nothing Canadian Movies Reality Is Unrealistic Captain Obvious Cool Old Lady Red Oni, Blue Oni Big Fancy House Rape as Drama As Himself "Awesome McCool" Name Stuff Blowing Up Slap-Slap-Kiss Country Matters The Alleged Car Bloodless Carnage Big Brother Instinct Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Index of Film Westerns Bloody Hilarious Mystery and Detective Films Mr. Exposition Missing Mom Thriller The Chessmaster Evil Laugh Casting Gag Face Death with Dignity Brainless Beauty Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene The '80s The X of Y There Is No Kill Like Overkill Dirty Old Man Shower Scene Horror Films Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Amoral Attorney Skewed Priorities Mood Whiplash Monumental Damage Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Due to the Dead Soundtrack Dissonance Bad "Bad Acting" Improvised Weapon Small Name, Big Ego Heroic BSoD The '90s Anachronism Stew Fake Shemp Your Head A-Splode Ms. Fanservice Chiaroscuro Noodle Incident Early Installment Weirdness Dwindling Party Suddenly SHOUTING! 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Artistic License – Military Logo Joke Dull Surprise Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Only One Name B-Movie Pragmatic Adaptation Sinister Minister Drowning My Sorrows Beauty Is Never Tarnished Bavarian Fire Drill Insult Backfire Only Known by Their Nickname Ax-Crazy Parental Incest Flashback Dramedy Funny Foreigner Back from the Dead Destination Defenestration Leitmotif Central Theme Pre-Mortem One-Liner Nice Guy Took a Level in Jerkass "The Reason You Suck" Speech Even Evil Has Loved Ones The Chick Blackmail Parental Neglect Downer Ending He Who Fights Monsters Deconstruction Decoy Protagonist Aluminum Christmas Trees Bald of Evil Dark and Troubled Past Bloodier and Gorier Neck Lift It Can Think Random Events Plot Evil Brit Conspicuous CG Bowdlerise Hero of Another Story Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! 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From Nobody to Nightmare Tempting Fate Outrun the Fireball Smug Snake Bond One-Liner Sassy Black Woman Call-Back Damsel in Distress Mugging the Monster What You Are in the Dark And the Adventure Continues Air-Vent Passageway A Date with Rosie Palms Let's Get Dangerous! All Men Are Perverts Disappeared Dad She's Got Legs Fish out of Water What the Hell, Hero? Dark Reprise Auto Erotica Flipping the Bird Victoria's Secret Compartment Mexican Standoff Henpecked Husband Not Using the "Z" Word Line-of-Sight Name Translation Convention Mythology Gag This Is Gonna Suck Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! 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Made of Explodium Black Comedy Rape Meaningful Echo Epic Movie Retired Badass The Film of the Book Insane Troll Logic Corpsing Toplessness from the Back Action Genre Alliterative Name Disguised in Drag Japanese Films Kick the Dog After the End Badass in a Nice Suit Music Stories Fan Disservice Anachronic Order Wham Shot Truth in Television Jitter Cam '80s Hair My God, What Have I Done? Arc Words Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Beta Couple Badass Normal Big Damn Heroes Manipulative Bastard Moment Killer Heroic Sacrifice Gilligan Cut Works Set in World War II Lampshade Hanging You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Hair-Trigger Temper Depraved Bisexual Love Triangle Femme Fatale Bittersweet Ending Dying Moment of Awesome The Hero Tranquil Fury Action Prologue The Big Guy Daddy's Girl Adaptation Expansion Alas, Poor Villain Batman Gambit Celebrity Paradox Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Refuge in Audacity The Un-Reveal Shell-Shocked Veteran Beard of Evil Aside Glance Corrupt Corporate Executive No Name Given True Companions The Bad Guy Wins Market-Based Title Slashed Throat Our Zombies Are Different Handicapped Badass Canon Foreigner For the Evulz Ambiguous Ending Fantasy Films Took a Level in Badass Manly Tears Red Eyes, Take Warning N-Word Privileges Danny Peary Cult Movies List Hypocrite Obfuscating Stupidity Bar Brawl Here We Go Again! Fate Worse than Death Setting Update Villainous Breakdown Stepford Smiler Mighty Whitey Stock Footage Easily Forgiven Black and Gray Morality Daylight Horror Fanservice Hidden Depths Fiery Redhead Facial Horror The Atoner Well-Intentioned Extremist Heterosexual Life-Partners