Tropescilloscope: Dark Reprise

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

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Is a Crapshoot Evil-Detecting Dog This Is Gonna Suck Vomit Indiscretion Shot Guns Akimbo No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Skewed Priorities Hero of Another Story Thriller Kick the Son of a Bitch Blatant Lies Bowdlerise Curse Cut Short Reality Has No Subtitles Random Events Plot Death by Sex Adaptational Heroism Breaking the Fourth Wall Bi the Way Death Seeker Face–Heel Turn Rule of Symbolism Sole Survivor The Starscream Failed a Spot Check Mighty Whitey Death by Adaptation Idiot Ball The Reveal Woman Scorned Manic Pixie Dream Girl Stalker with a Crush Chekhov's Skill Real Life Awesome, but Impractical Psychopathic Manchild Creative Closing Credits British Films Jitter Cam Combat Pragmatist Pragmatic Adaptation Would Hit a Girl Your Cheating Heart Sequel Escalation Beware the Nice Ones Logo Joke Hero Antagonist Dramatic Gun Cock Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Big-Bad Ensemble Kill It with Fire Screw This, I'm Outta Here! 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Deus ex Machina Ass Shove Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking The Dreaded Overly Long Gag Anyone Can Die Eiffel Tower Effect Karmic Death Evil Brit Genre Throwback A Date with Rosie Palms Big Eater Cold-Blooded Torture Enemy Mine Animal Motifs World of Ham Bittersweet Ending Demoted to Extra Maybe Ever After Serial Killer Manchild Bar Brawl Credits Gag Leitmotif Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Beta Couple The End... Or Is It? Off-into-the-Distance Ending Evil Is Hammy Laser-Guided Karma Slashed Throat Vitriolic Best Buds Betty and Veronica Motor Mouth Death of a Child Conspicuous CG folderlabel Pre-Mortem One-Liner Naked People Are Funny The Stoner Authority Equals Asskicking Destination Defenestration Action Prologue Wham Line timeperiod Funny Foreigner Fourth Date Marriage Never Found the Body Henpecked Husband Five-Man Band Sir Swears-a-Lot In the Back For Want of a Nail Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Film Series Defiant to the End MacGuffin Blood from the Mouth There Is No Kill Like Overkill