Board 8 > Best of the Trope Season 2: Day 191 - Cruel and Unusual Death

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Hello everyone, and welcome back to Best of the Trope!

Here are the rules. Each day, I will post a trope from TV Tropes, and each poster can name up to three examples of that trope. Whichever nomination gets the most mentions wins! Posters may also name as many Honourable Mentions as they like, but they are purely optional and will not count towards the running score. You may look at the TV Tropes page for that day's trope for examples, but you do not have to pick all your examples from the page. You can nominate whatever examples you like, as long as they qualify for the trope. Each trope will last around 24 hours before the next one goes up.

Posters may also nominate any tropes they wish to see come up during the series. This is optional, and you don't have to do it every day, or at all. Tropes will be randomly selected from the list each day, except for some occasions where I will pick a thematically appropriate trope that may or may not be on the list.

Here's the list of previous tropes, so if you wish to nominate some tropes, check on here that it wasn't previously done. http://board8.wikia.com/wiki/Best_of_the_Trope

Trope list:
That One Level
Game-Breaker
Magic Knight
The Reason You Suck Speech
Storming the Castle
Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence
Mentor Occupational Hazard
Torch the Franchise and Run
Trash the Set
Grand Finale

The winner of yesterday's trope, Clipped Wing Angel, was Genie Jafar (Aladdin), who got 4 votes.

Previous Winners: Day 161 Onwards
Stone Wall - Shuckle (Pokemon)
One Scene Wonder - The Black Knight (Monty Python and the Holy Grail)
Magikarp Power - Magikarp (Pokemon) / Pawn (Chess)
Joke Character - Pichu (Super Smash Bros Melee) / Dan Hibiki (Street Fighter)
Lethal Joke Character - L-Block (GameFAQs Contests)
Stupid Statement Dance Mix - They're Taking the Hobbits to Isengard / All Your Base
Giant Space Flea from Nowhere - Necron (Final Fantasy IX)
Roaring Rampage of Revenge - The Punisher (Marvel Comics) / John Wick / The Bride (Kill Bill)
Glass Cannon (Redux) - Tracer (Overwatch) / Hypno Disc (Robot Wars) / Nightmare (Battlebots)
Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome - Marie (The Bourne Supremacy)
Even the Girls Want Her - Lana Kane (Archer)
Even the Guys Want Him - Gaston (Beauty and the Beast) / Big Boss (Metal Gear Solid)
Mighty Glacier - Tohru (Jackie Chan Adventures)
Breather Boss - Morpha (Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time) / Gi Nattak (Final Fantasy VII)
Big Bad Friend - Big Smoke (Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas)
Launcher of a Thousand Ships - Nightwing (DC Comics)
Evil Cripple - Mr. Glass (Unbreakable)
Breather Level - 100 Acre Wood (Kingdom Hearts)
Beef Gate - Automatic 4-Star Wanted Level (Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas)
One True Love - Buttercup and Westley (The Princess Bride) / Shrek and Fiona (Shrek)
Cliffhanger - The Snap (Avengers: Infinity War)
Anti-Climax Boss - Yu Yevon (Final Fantasy X)
Lights Off, Somebody Dies - Devil / Anthology of Interest (Futurama) / And Then There Was Shawn (Boy Meets World)
Broken Base - Sub VS Dub (Anime) / Original VS Reboot (Devil May Cry) / Country VS Pop (Taylor Swift) / Casual VS Competitive (Super Smash Bros) / Genwunners (Pokemon)
Difficult But Awesome - Ana (Overwatch)
Disc One Nuke - Hawlucha (Pokemon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon)
Lampshade Hanging - How did Yzma and Kronk get there first? (The Emperor's New Groove)
Tier Induced Scrappy - Meta Knight (Super Smash Bros Brawl)
Squishy Wizard - Alakazam (Pokemon)

Today's trope is Cruel and Unusual Death. Here is the link: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CruelAndUnusualDeath

Some deaths not only suck, they suck beyond the telling of it. The extremely painful and particularly gruesome, morbidly embarrassing deaths that leave the deceased absolutely no chance to retain any sort of dignity, forever. Deaths that transcend from being merely "bad" into the realm of being "ugly."

This trope isn't about just any unpleasant death. Sure, it's bad to get shot in the head...your blood spills all over the floor and you may void your bladder or your bowels. But compared to... oh, being eaten alive from the inside out, getting shot is a walk in the park. It is worth noting that for the most part, creators reserve these events for use as villainous karmic deaths (where the level of horror involved with the death is often part of the karmic punishment) and to get rid of unpleasant people who are Hoist by Their Own Petards... especially the embarrassing type. If this is done to a sympathetic character, on the other hand, it is usually the point where the killer crosses the Moral Event Horizon, if he or she is not on the other side of it already. If they do this on a regular basis, chances are they're a Complete Monster.

There isn't necessarily a correlation between the visible gruesomeness of the death and the actual nature of the character's death, some deaths that fall under this trope happen offscreen, and it's the very idea of it that makes it horrific. Deaths with a high horrible factor with less visible content can just as easily fall into scary, though.

TL,DR: A painful, unpleasant and/or humiliating death.

Nominations:
Oberyn Martell's head is crushed by the Mountain's bare hands (Game of Thrones)
Kiyomi Takada's death (Death Note)
Noob Saibot's "Make a Wish" fatality (Mortal Kombat 9)

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Emily falls into the rock grinder (Until Dawn)
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Executions (Danganronpa)
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Hbthebattle posted...

Executions (Danganronpa)

Diavolo's infinite death loop (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure)
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Oberyn Martell's head is crushed by the Mountain's bare hands (Game of Thrones)
Executions (Danganronpa)
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Ladder through the eye (Final Destination 2)
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Chef's Death (South Park)

The Spectre turns Professor Achilles Milo into cheese and has his formerly mind controlled rats eat him alive (Batman the Brave and the Bold)

Villain's head is enlarged to the point it engulfs his own body, is flown into space, and thrown into the direction of a headless space giant that devours his head....alternatively just victims of Stardust the Super Wizard in general (Stardust the Superwizard)
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Fatalities (Mortal Kombat)
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Executions (Danganronpa)
Fatalities (Mortal Kombat)
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Stuffed in a Freddy Fazbear suit (Five Nights at Freddy's)

Robin accidentally killed by A-Train (The Boys)

Heather's death (Ash vs. Evil Dead)
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Pirateking2000 posted...

Chef's Death (South Park)

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Fatalities (Mortal Kombat)

If you can count these in general then this is absolutely the winner

Otherwise,

Oberyn's head getting crushed by the Mountain (Thrones)
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Mewtwo59 posted...

Oberyn Martell's head is crushed by the Mountain's bare hands (Game of Thrones)
Executions (Danganronpa)

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Stuffed in a Freddy Fazbear suit (Five Nights at Freddy's)
Chef's death (South Park)
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I'll replace Make a Wish with Fatalities in general.

On that note, Rankings so far:
Executions (Danganronpa) - 5 votes
Oberyn Martell's head is crushed by the Mountain's bare hands (Game of Thrones) - 4 votes
Fatalities (Mortal Kombat) - 4 votes
Chef's Death (South Park) - 3 votes
Stuffed in a Freddy Fazbear suit (Five Nights at Freddy's) - 2 votes
Kiyomi Takada's death (Death Note)
Emily falls into the rock grinder (Until Dawn)
Diavolo's infinite death loop (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure)
Ladder through the eye (Final Destination 2)
The Spectre turns Professor Achilles Milo into cheese and has his formerly mind controlled rats eat him alive (Batman the Brave and the Bold)
Villain's head is enlarged to the point it engulfs his own body, is flown into space, and thrown into the direction of a headless space giant that devours his head....alternatively just victims of Stardust the Super Wizard in general (Stardust the Superwizard)
Robin accidentally killed by A-Train (The Boys)
Heather's death (Ash vs. Evil Dead)

Pirateking2000 posted...

The Spectre turns Professor Achilles Milo into cheese and has his formerly mind controlled rats eat him alive (Batman the Brave and the Bold)

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Hbthebattle posted...

Executions (Danganronpa)

This just sums this thing up.
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Executions (Danganronpa)
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