Tropescilloscope: Famous Last Words

What you say before you croak. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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