Tropescilloscope: Taking You with Me

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

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