Tropescilloscope: Dying Moment of Awesome

A character's death, or specifically, how they die, stands out as completely awesome. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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