Tropescilloscope: Better to Die than Be Killed

Someone commits suicide to avoid falling into enemy hands. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Corrupt Corporate Executive Abhorrent Admirer Only Known by Their Nickname Red Right Hand Parental Neglect Meet Cute Woman in White Match Cut Expository Hairstyle Change Poor Communication Kills Rule of Funny Russian Films Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Freeze-Frame Bonus Christmas Movies Index Hate Sink Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies A Date with Rosie Palms Bottomless Magazines He Who Fights Monsters Eagleland Double Entendre Suspiciously Specific Denial Big Damn Heroes Punch-Clock Villain Didn't Think This Through Affably Evil Retirony Fourth Date Marriage The Hero Dies Double-Meaning Title Creative Closing Credits The Great Depression Mr. Exposition Fanservice Extra Straight Gay Kick the Dog How We Got Here Abusive Parents Loads and Loads of Characters Kubrick Stare Riddle for the Ages Leaning on the Fourth Wall Arranged Marriage Heroic BSoD Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! 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Same Language Dub I Need a Freaking Drink Famous Last Words Missing Mom Dirty Coward A God Am I You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! 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Action Genre The Remake Alliterative Name Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Action Prologue Australian Movies Title Drop Exact Words Death by Adaptation War Is Hell Flipping the Bird Air-Vent Passageway For Want of a Nail As Long as It Sounds Foreign Good Is Not Nice Last-Name Basis Nice Guy Big Fancy House The Quiet One All There in the Manual Villain Song Actually Pretty Funny Wham Shot Shirtless Scene Naked People Are Funny Madness Mantra Catch-Phrase Cool Old Lady Fingore Attempted Rape BFG Adults Are Useless Parental Incest The Bad Guy Wins Television Movie Index The Atoner Rousing Speech Pyrrhic Victory Freudian Excuse 20 Minutes into the Future Shower Scene Unresolved Sexual Tension Boom, Headshot! Actor Allusion Demoted to Extra Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Extreme Doormat Imagine Spot Let's Get Dangerous! Hero Antagonist Deliberate Values Dissonance Too Dumb to Live The Stoic Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Advertised Extra Curb-Stomp Battle Peek-a-Boo Corpse Real Life Never My Fault Does Not Like Shoes Only One Name Not What It Looks Like The Casanova Drowning My Sorrows Ghost Fiction Rule of Three Big Bad Duumvirate I'm a Humanitarian Sealed Evil in a Can Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Bound and Gagged Asshole Victim Posthumous Character Wrong Genre Savvy Say My Name Insult Backfire Ironic Echo Take That! Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Happily Married What You Are in the Dark Antagonist Title Informed Ability Evil Laugh Jerkass Made of Iron Non-Indicative Name Animal Motifs Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome My God, What Have I Done? Does This Remind You of Anything? Eureka Moment My Beloved Smother "Where Are They Now?" 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