Tropescilloscope: Dark Reprise

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

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