Tropescilloscope: Dark Reprise

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

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