Tropescilloscope: Dark Reprise

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

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