Tropescilloscope: Dark Reprise

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

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