Tropescilloscope: Dark Reprise

An upbeat song is reprised darkly. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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