Tropescilloscope: Dark Reprise

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

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