Tropescilloscope: Pre-Mortem One-Liner

Something you say to someone before you kill them. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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