Tropescilloscope: You Have Outlived Your Usefulness

An associate of the villain no longer has any role in the villain's plan and is killed. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Adaptational Heroism Freudian Excuse Coming-of-Age Story Dirty Coward Alas, Poor Villain Defiant to the End Hoist by His Own Petard Reasonable Authority Figure Naked People Are Funny Sacrificial Lion Would Hit a Girl Children Are Innocent Drill Sergeant Nasty Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Air-Vent Passageway Christmas Movies Index Spanner in the Works Never My Fault Meaningful Echo Smoking Is Cool Unwitting Instigator of Doom Cruel and Unusual Death Noodle Incident Accidental Misnaming Shoot the Shaggy Dog Here We Go Again! Off with His Head! The '70s Maybe Ever After Large Ham Amusing Injuries I Have Your Wife Back from the Dead Took a Level in Badass Not Using the "Z" Word Mythology Gag Evil vs. Evil Shell-Shocked Veteran Fanservice Even Evil Has Loved Ones Mood Whiplash Rape as Drama Psychological Thriller Disney Villain Death Big Eater You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! 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Disney Death Same Language Dub Green-Eyed Monster Naïve Newcomer Artistic License – Biology Disguised in Drag Pretty in Mink And the Adventure Continues Cowboy Cop Smug Snake Evil Brit Important Haircut Up to Eleven Alliterative Name Chekhov's Gunman All There in the Script Badass Longcoat Death by Sex Hollywood Darkness Four-Temperament Ensemble Attempted Rape Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! One-Man Army Psychopathic Manchild My Beloved Smother Big Bad Duumvirate Destination Defenestration Actor Allusion Not So Above It All The Voiceless Zombie Stories Danny Peary Cult Movies List Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Pragmatic Villainy The Smurfette Principle Light Is Not Good Non-Indicative Name Men Are the Expendable Gender Retcon Horror Comedy A Date with Rosie Palms Loophole Abuse Grey and Gray Morality Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Woman in White Television Movie Index Suspiciously Specific Denial Insistent Terminology Playing Gertrude Deal with the Devil Closed Circle Camera Abuse Bavarian Fire Drill Lock and Load Montage Hooker with a Heart of Gold Bond Villain Stupidity Product Placement Not What It Looks Like Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Wretched Hive Contrived Coincidence Armor-Piercing Question Punch-Clock Villain In Medias Res Wham Line Jerkass Has a Point Morality Pet Improvised Weapon Artistic License – Geography Depraved Bisexual Ms. Fanservice Dark Reprise Pragmatic Adaptation He Knows Too Much Credits Gag Novelization Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Expy Cold-Blooded Torture Properly Paranoid Unspoken Plan Guarantee Evil Is Hammy Red Herring Artistic License – Military German Films Bottomless Magazines Dogged Nice Guy Shout-Out The End... Or Is It? 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Calling the Old Man Out Pretty Little Headshots Anguished Declaration of Love Reality Is Unrealistic Made of Iron Film Noir Index Slap-Slap-Kiss Hair-Trigger Temper Fan Disservice Silent Movie Only Sane Man No Name Given Action Prologue Rule of Three Betty and Veronica The Faceless Lampshade Hanging Chiaroscuro Empathic Environment It's Personal Superhero La Résistance Animal Title Index Peek-a-Boo Corpse Make It Look Like an Accident Gratuitous English The Bad Guy Wins Evil Is Petty Spiritual Successor Love at First Sight I Did What I Had to Do Every Car Is a Pinto Alpha Bitch Mighty Whitey Artistic License – History "Shaggy Dog" Story Gory Discretion Shot Bring My Brown Pants Establishing Character Moment You Have Failed Me Setting Update Gorn A.I. Is a Crapshoot Anti-Villain Captain Obvious BFG No-Holds-Barred Beatdown The Atoner Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Foreshadowing The Cameo Only in It for the Money Manic Pixie Dream Girl Belligerent Sexual Tension A God Am I Deliberately Monochrome Everyone Has Standards No OSHA Compliance Beware the Nice Ones And Starring Beta Couple Brutal Honesty She Cleans Up Nicely Call-Forward Demonic Possession Humiliation Conga Man on Fire Mundane Made Awesome Tempting Fate Rousing Speech Overly Long Gag Nice Hat Animated Credits Opening Bunny-Ears Lawyer Tap on the Head Annoying Younger Sibling Jump Scare Take a Third Option Put on a Bus Word of God Made of Explodium Your Head A-Splode Shower Scene Never Trust a Trailer In the Back Cat Scare Greater-Scope Villain Pyrrhic Victory The Lancer Never Found the Body Boom, Headshot! Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Driven to Suicide The Great Depression Stepford Smiler O.O.C. Is Serious Business Laser-Guided Karma Fatal Family Photo Damsel in Distress Book-Ends Fiery Redhead Ominous Latin Chanting Fingore Rule of Funny Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Neck Snap Big Fancy House The Dragon Covers Always Lie Neck Lift Say My Name Retirony I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Bowdlerise Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Darker and Edgier Slasher Smile Worthy Opponent Corpsing The Starscream Dropped a Bridge on Him Drowning My Sorrows No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Super Strength Big Bad Genre Savvy Nice Guy The Alcoholic Author Appeal Anachronism Stew Badass Normal Hollywood Law Grievous Bottley Harm Deus ex Machina May–December Romance Fainting Pay Evil unto Evil Fake Shemp Intergenerational Friendship Badass Grandpa War Is Hell Works Set in World War II