Tropescilloscope: Dark Reprise

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

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