Tropescilloscope: Dark Reprise

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

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