Tropescilloscope: Dark Reprise

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

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