Tropescilloscope: Dying Moment of Awesome

A character's death, or specifically, how they die, stands out as completely awesome. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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