Tropescilloscope: Taking You with Me

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

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Broken Bird Left the Background Music On Spell My Name with an "S" Police are Useless Moment Killer Same Language Dub Deliberately Monochrome Artistic License – Law Adaptation Name Change Monumental Damage Genre Throwback Even Evil Has Loved Ones Big-Bad Ensemble Evil-Detecting Dog Toplessness from the Back Beauty Is Never Tarnished Costume Porn Not What It Looks Like Mood Whiplash Dramatic Irony Femme Fatale Bullying a Dragon Nice Hat Sadistic Choice Smug Snake Fake Shemp The Film of the Book Animated Credits Opening Visual Pun Accidental Murder Re-Cut Film Noir Evil Is Hammy Straight Gay The '60s Dumb Blonde How We Got Here Once More, with Clarity! Half the Man He Used to Be Spared by the Adaptation Taking the Bullet Pragmatic Villainy Easily Forgiven Downer Ending Anguished Declaration of Love Big Bad Duumvirate '80s Hair Overprotective Dad Love Triangle Facial Horror The Sociopath Imagine Spot Drugs Are Bad The Hero Suspiciously Specific Denial Retired Badass Epic Movie Mighty Whitey Black and Gray Morality Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Eiffel Tower Effect Instant Death Bullet Camp Gay Light Is Not Good Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Race Against the Clock Horror Films World of Ham Cain and Abel In Medias Res Yandere Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Big Applesauce Leave the Camera Running Mercy Kill Fingore Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Nothing Is Scarier Adaptation Distillation Undying Loyalty Artistic License – History Tagline Real Life Accidental Misnaming Action Prologue Cool Shades Chekhov's Gunman Kill 'em All Broken Pedestal Bad Boss Posthumous Character Author Avatar Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Arch-Enemy Redshirt Army For Want of a Nail Suspiciously Similar Substitute An Arm and a Leg Military and Warfare Films Vomit Indiscretion Shot Put on a Bus Big Fancy House The Voiceless Curb-Stomp Battle Line-of-Sight Name Foreshadowing Epic Fail Pretty Little Headshots Police Brutality Cold-Blooded Torture Dark Is Not Evil Vacation Films Punch-Clock Villain Translation Convention Have a Gay Old Time One-Man Army Country Matters Romantic Comedy Meaningful Name Evil Brit Catch-Phrase Naked People Are Funny Bilingual Bonus Shown Their Work Sequel Escalation All Men Are Perverts Henpecked Husband Product Placement Due to the Dead Shut Up, Hannibal! 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Grievous Bottley Harm The Big Guy Blackmail Unspoken Plan Guarantee Fatal Family Photo No Celebrities Were Harmed Parental Abandonment No-Sell Bad "Bad Acting" Funny Foreigner The Faceless Annoying Younger Sibling The Remake Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Death Seeker Race Lift The Vamp Pimped-Out Dress Continuity Nod Animal Motifs Training Montage Bound and Gagged Knife Nut Villain Opening Scene Fantasy Films Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Adapted Out Noodle Incident Hell Is That Noise The Chessmaster Kick the Son of a Bitch Villain Ball Only a Flesh Wound Sealed Evil in a Can What You Are in the Dark Drowning My Sorrows Married to the Job Your Head A-Splode Malevolent Masked Men Room Full of Crazy Heroes Want Redheads Recycled IN SPACE! Taking You with Me Sanity Slippage The Ditz Mama Bear Only in It for the Money Public Domain Feature Films Calling the Old Man Out Creator Cameo Camera Abuse Did Not Get the Girl Getting Crap Past the Radar Back from the Dead Morality Pet Interrupted Suicide Dirty Coward Slap-Slap-Kiss Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies The Great Depression Abhorrent Admirer Psychopathic Manchild Crazy-Prepared Vomit Discretion Shot Face Death with Dignity Arc Words Breaking the Fourth Wall Missing Mom timeperiod The Brute Properly Paranoid Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Really Gets Around Sequel Hook Never Found the Body Rule of Funny Protagonist Title Twist Ending Villain Protagonist Rated M for Manly Fish out of Water Peek-a-Boo Corpse Cassandra Truth Works Set in World War II Leaning on the Fourth Wall Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Maybe Ever After Contrived Coincidence Demoted to Extra He Who Fights Monsters Cruel and Unusual Death La Résistance Eldritch Abomination Wrong Genre Savvy Not Even Bothering with the Accent Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! 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Is a Crapshoot Adaptational Attractiveness Rule of Symbolism Bowdlerise Shower Scene Demonic Possession Eye Scream Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Ms. Fanservice O.O.C. Is Serious Business Soundtrack Dissonance The Dog Bites Back Fun with Acronyms Our Vampires Are Different Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Hoist by His Own Petard Advertised Extra Character Development Silence Is Golden Auto Erotica Took a Level in Jerkass Foil Artistic License – Physics Idiot Ball Sir Swears-a-Lot All for Nothing Defrosting Ice Queen Intergenerational Friendship Genre Savvy The Reveal It's All About Me Composite Character Red Herring Informed Ability Adaptation Expansion B-Movie Fourth Date Marriage Reality Is Unrealistic Stylistic Suck Curse Cut Short Handicapped Badass Sci-Fi Horror Reckless Gun Usage Age Lift Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? 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