Tropescilloscope: Together in Death

You're together with your loved one, but you had to die for it. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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