Tropescilloscope: Redemption Equals Death

Heel–Face Turn followed by death. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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