Tropescilloscope: Dark Reprise

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

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