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