Tropescilloscope: Together in Death

You're together with your loved one, but you had to die for it. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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