Tropescilloscope: Asshole Victim

A character (usually a villain) suffers a horrific, but well deserved death or punishment. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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