Tropescilloscope: Mercy Kill

Killing someone who is better off dead. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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