Tropescilloscope: Taking You with Me

Killing your killer in your final moments. (read more at tvtropes.org)

More Tropes Married to the Job Self-Deprecation Dark Is Not Evil Disguised in Drag Faking the Dead Straight Gay Bar Brawl Romantic Comedy Daddy's Girl Guns Akimbo Jerk Jock Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Recycled IN SPACE! Villain Protagonist Dark Action Girl Cool Old Lady Gorn Non-Indicative Name Chekhov's Gun The X of Y Badass Bookworm The Chessmaster Tempting Fate Cool Shades Slasher Smile Exactly What It Says on the Tin Make It Look Like an Accident Wham Shot Every Car Is a Pinto Decoy Protagonist Manipulative Bastard Posthumous Character Spell My Name with an "S" La Résistance Not So Above It All You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Humiliation Conga Animated Credits Opening And Starring She's Got Legs As the Good Book Says... And I Must Scream The Power of Love Retirony Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Hoist by His Own Petard Fatal Family Photo Costume Porn Camp Gay Rich Bitch Important Haircut Action Girl How We Got Here Celebrity Paradox Not Even Bothering with the Accent It Will Never Catch On Adaptation Expansion Eye Scream Artistic License – Gun Safety Men Are the Expendable Gender It's All About Me Obstructive Bureaucrat Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Documentary Drives Like Crazy Henpecked Husband Damsel in Distress Dull Surprise Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Blackmail Villain Song Genre Savvy Based on a True Story Maybe Ever After '80s Hair Extreme Doormat Alas, Poor Villain Blonde, Brunette, Redhead An Arm and a Leg The Cavalry Reality Is Unrealistic Action Prologue Death of a Child War Is Hell Call-Back Composite Character Unusually Uninteresting Sight Reckless Gun Usage Screw the Rules, I Have Money! World of Ham Killed Mid-Sentence Double Entendre Police are Useless Awesome, but Impractical Taking the Bullet Manly Tears Captain Ersatz From Nobody to Nightmare It's Personal Disproportionate Retribution Eagleland Failed a Spot Check Fainting Cat Scare Informed Ability Mind Screw Tranquil Fury Jump Scare Sanity Slippage Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Death by Sex Armor-Piercing Question Car Fu Extremely Short Timespan Madness Mantra Offscreen Moment of Awesome The '70s Groin Attack Not Quite Dead Creative Closing Credits "Shaggy Dog" Story Blood Knight Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Actor Allusion Ascended Extra Closed Circle Parental Neglect Those Wacky Nazis Evil Is Hammy Big Bad Duumvirate Stepford Smiler Monumental Damage Award-Bait Song Peek-a-Boo Corpse Moment Killer Anachronism Stew Obfuscating Stupidity You Have Failed Me Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Broken Bird Amusing Injuries Not What It Looks Like Humans Are Bastards Destination Defenestration Psychopathic Manchild Laser-Guided Karma Bad Boss Neck Lift In Medias Res The Stoner And the Adventure Continues Reality Ensues Dirty Old Man Bond One-Liner Film Series Parental Abandonment Scenery Gorn Facial Horror Expository Hairstyle Change Exact Words Sinister Minister Product Placement Meaningful Background Event Sacrificial Lion Vomit Discretion Shot Deal with the Devil Insult Backfire Chase Scene Black Comedy Rape Race Against the Clock Match Cut Dramatic Irony Line-of-Sight Name No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Darkest Hour Badass Longcoat I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Mad Scientist Papa Wolf Epic Movie Affectionate Parody Race Lift Off-into-the-Distance Ending The Atoner Here We Go Again! Taking You with Me Badass Boast Babies Ever After Freeze-Frame Bonus Danny Peary Cult Movies List Fish out of Water Artistic License – Geography Cruel and Unusual Death Belligerent Sexual Tension Police Brutality Improbable Weapon User Sir Swears-a-Lot Chekhov's Gunman Public Domain Feature Films Cloudcuckoolander Bloodier and Gorier Faux Affably Evil Dramatic Gun Cock Stealth Pun Big Bad Funny Background Event Made of Iron Rule of Symbolism The Starscream Black Dude Dies First Adaptation Name Change Psychological Thriller Punch-Clock Villain Brick Joke Rewatch Bonus Cat Fight "Awesome McCool" Name My God, What Have I Done? Sequel Escalation Let's Get Dangerous! Fire-Forged Friends Cool Car Only Known by Their Nickname Hero Antagonist Credits Gag Betty and Veronica Alpha Bitch Cluster F-Bomb Totally Radical Hell Is That Noise Protagonist Title Our Vampires Are Different Names to Run Away from Really Fast One-Word Title Curb-Stomp Battle Only One Name Visual Pun Creepy Child The Musical The '60s Breaking the Fourth Wall Offscreen Teleportation Ambiguously Gay The Hero Red Right Hand Took a Level in Jerkass Arranged Marriage Adaptational Heroism folderlabel Riddle for the Ages Mr. Fanservice Lighter and Softer Due to the Dead Christmas Movies Index Punny Name Nice Hat Gilligan Cut For the Evulz The Sociopath Does Not Like Shoes Determinator Dies Wide Open Smug Snake The Dog Bites Back Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Big "NO!" Science Fiction Films Running Gag Meaningful Name Stock Footage The Reveal Serial Killer Even Evil Has Standards Once More, with Clarity! Idiot Ball A Minor Kidroduction Australian Movies Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! 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Made of Explodium Tap on the Head Reality Has No Subtitles Domestic Abuse Asshole Victim The '80s All for Nothing Mundane Made Awesome Woman in White Even Evil Has Loved Ones Knight Templar Cain and Abel Heroic BSoD Redemption Equals Death Not So Different Malevolent Masked Men Ripped from the Headlines Superhero Paper-Thin Disguise Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Catch-Phrase Beta Couple Grievous Bottley Harm Back from the Dead Unspoken Plan Guarantee The Ace Missing Mom Kill 'em All Double-Meaning Title The Alcoholic Hong Kong Films Overprotective Dad Driven to Suicide Animal Title Index Imagine Spot Martial Arts Movie All Men Are Perverts Jerk with a Heart of Gold N-Word Privileges Becoming the Mask Video Credits Evil Laugh Demoted to Extra Victoria's Secret Compartment Historical Villain Upgrade Artistic License – Law Expy Pet the Dog Arc Words Yandere Italian Films Bolivian Army Ending Pay Evil unto Evil Psycho for Hire Twist Ending Kubrick Stare Instant Death Bullet As Himself Adorkable Karmic Death Disney Death Fat Bastard Blatant Lies The Quiet One "Well Done, Son!" 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Epilogue Index of Film Westerns Drill Sergeant Nasty Unresolved Sexual Tension Hollywood Law Film Noir Index Horror Comedy Never Found the Body Never Trust a Trailer Parental Incest Aluminum Christmas Trees Evil Sounds Deep Anguished Declaration of Love Affably Evil Eureka Moment Evil Counterpart Red Herring Country Matters Adult Fear Anti-Villain Sassy Black Woman Death by Adaptation All Just a Dream Fake Shemp Cold-Blooded Torture Be Careful What You Wish For "The Reason You Suck" Speech Knife Nut Developing Doomed Characters Sadistic Choice Covers Always Lie Those Two Bad Guys Outrun the Fireball Beard of Evil Spiritual Successor Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Guile Hero Continuity Nod The Vamp Bring My Brown Pants Establishing Character Moment Beauty Is Never Tarnished Getting Crap Past the Radar Wicked Cultured Plot Hole In the Back Early Installment Weirdness Author Appeal Badass Grandpa BFG Room Full of Crazy Chiaroscuro Advertised Extra Actually Pretty Funny The Un-Reveal Shoot the Shaggy Dog Five-Man Band Take a Third Option Gone Horribly Right Death by Irony He Who Fights Monsters Annoying Younger Sibling Bavarian Fire Drill Author Avatar Fingore Call-Forward Cowboy Cop Genre Shift Dirty Coward British Films Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Coming-of-Age Story Historical Hero Upgrade Worthy Opponent Pragmatic Adaptation Deliberately Monochrome Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? 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Fiery Redhead Evil Plan The Brute Canadian Movies The Casanova Immune to Bullets Russian Films Rule of Three Nothing Is Scarier Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Leave the Camera Running Time Skip Jerkass Oh, Crap! Thriller Vomit Indiscretion Shot Scare Chord Berserk Button An Aesop The Mole Genre Throwback Took a Level in Badass Big-Bad Ensemble No Name Given Implacable Man Fourth Date Marriage Vitriolic Best Buds Body Horror Death Seeker Not Using the "Z" Word Depraved Bisexual Training Montage Everyone Has Standards Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Chekhov's Skill Abhorrent Admirer True Companions Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Villainous Breakdown Downer Ending Fatal Flaw Homage Mexican Standoff The Ditz There Is No Kill Like Overkill Mood Whiplash The Voiceless Light Is Not Good Trailers Always Spoil Precision F-Strike A Father to His Men The Ghost Military and Warfare Films Friend to All Children Lock and Load Montage Ghost Fiction Aside Glance A God Am I Rape as Drama No OSHA Compliance Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Intrepid Reporter Roaring Rampage of Revenge Mama Bear Crucified Hero Shot Age Lift Deus ex Machina Dual Wielding Skewed Priorities Redshirt Army Vacation Films The Load Red Eyes, Take Warning Fate Worse than Death My Greatest Failure Femme Fatale Framing Device Would Hit a Girl Half the Man He Used to Be Token Minority Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Brutal Honesty Improbable Aiming Skills Sequel Hook Pretty in Mink Comically Missing the Point Serious Business Retired Badass Foil Drugs Are Bad Silence Is Golden Honor Before Reason Revenge No-Sell Combat Pragmatist Get Out! Conspicuous CG Green-Eyed Monster Dogged Nice Guy Unwitting Instigator of Doom Bare Your Midriff You Killed My Father Arch-Enemy Rule of Cool Foreshadowing Mythology Gag Bunny-Ears Lawyer Mr. Exposition Badass in a Nice Suit Blood from the Mouth Kill It with Fire Hollywood Darkness I Have Your Wife Fanservice Extra Together in Death Crazy-Prepared Parental Substitute An Axe to Grind No Antagonist The Lancer Your Cheating Heart Intergenerational Friendship Ass Shove Pragmatic Villainy The Big Guy Artistic License – History Funny Foreigner Book-Ends Manchild Black and Gray Morality Well-Intentioned Extremist Creator Cameo Vampire Fiction Brother–Sister Incest Spared by the Adaptation The Cameo Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism The Alleged Car Too Dumb to Live Scary Black Man Batman Gambit Stuff Blowing Up Title Drop Silent Movie Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Your Head A-Splode Grey and Gray Morality Storming the Castle Properly Paranoid Noodle Incident Mooks Action Survivor Romantic False Lead Never My Fault Final Girl Face Death with Dignity Evil Is Petty I'm a Humanitarian Canon Foreigner Sci-Fi Horror Gainax Ending Mystery and Detective Films Take That! 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Contrived Coincidence The Stoic Jitter Cam As You Know Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Up to Eleven Hate Sink Adaptational Badass Heroic Sacrifice Loads and Loads of Characters Super Strength Smoking Is Cool Mugging the Monster Those Two Guys Early-Bird Cameo Bond Villain Stupidity Pretty Little Headshots Playing Gertrude Bald of Evil Bad "Bad Acting" Wham Line The Stinger As Long as It Sounds Foreign Jerkass Has a Point Daylight Horror Card-Carrying Villain Last-Name Basis MacGuffin Alliterative Name The Oner Heel–Face Turn Air-Vent Passageway Toplessness from the Back Market-Based Title German Films Overly Long Gag Word of God The '90s Historical In-Joke Dark and Troubled Past Accidental Misnaming Insane Troll Logic Unreliable Narrator Ax-Crazy Whole Plot Reference Butt-Monkey What the Hell, Hero? Red Oni, Blue Oni Mercy Kill Plucky Comic Relief Dwindling Party Hero of Another Story Bullying a Dragon Animal Motifs Abusive Parents Action Genre Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Not So Stoic Music Stories Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Wretched Hive Anachronic Order Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Big Brother Instinct Break the Haughty Novelization Adults Are Useless Ms. Fanservice Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Good Is Not Nice Big Applesauce The Chick Bilingual Bonus Diabolus ex Machina Unusual Euphemism I Did What I Had to Do Put on a Bus Karma Houdini Big Damn Heroes Interrupted Suicide Big Eater I Need a Freaking Drink Real Life The Bad Guy Wins Male Frontal Nudity Eiffel Tower Effect Hooker with a Heart of Gold Character Development Better to Die than Be Killed Spanner in the Works Same Language Dub Would Hurt a Child No Celebrities Were Harmed Adapted Out Biopic The Dragon Crapsack World Film Noir Bi the Way Undying Loyalty From Bad to Worse Artistic License – Physics NO INDOOR VOICE Apocalypse How Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Does This Remind You of Anything? 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Four-Temperament Ensemble Corpsing Translation Convention Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Agony of the Feet The Smurfette Principle Male Gaze Have a Gay Old Time Black Comedy Camera Abuse The Film of the Book Ungrateful Bastard Sole Survivor Empathic Environment Gender Flip Dramedy Poor Communication Kills Defiant to the End Calling the Old Man Out Dropped a Bridge on Him Morality Pet Pimped-Out Dress The Remake Villain Opening Scene Chewing the Scenery Rule of Funny Setting Update Curse Cut Short Throwing Your Sword Always Works Only Sane Man Heterosexual Life-Partners Tagline Deconstruction Off with His Head! Dutch Angle Suddenly SHOUTING! No Ending Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Irony