Tropescilloscope: Death by Irony

They're killed by something ironic. Usually it's somewhat their fault. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Roaring Rampage of Revenge Token Minority Blood Knight Not Quite Dead Mugging the Monster Adaptation Name Change Mooks Worthy Opponent Didn't Think This Through The Remake Villain Ball No Name Given Revenge Red Shirt Fate Worse than Death Happily Married Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Exactly What It Says on the Tin Never Found the Body Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Redemption Equals Death Alpha Bitch Gory Discretion Shot Ambiguously Gay Obviously Evil Double-Meaning Title Your Cheating Heart Credits Gag Fanservice Bland-Name Product Non-Indicative Name Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Crucified Hero Shot I Did What I Had to Do Affectionate Parody Took a Level in Jerkass Take That! Evil Is Hammy Mind Screw Cat Scare Leave the Camera Running Covers Always Lie Only in It for the Money Gone Horribly Right And the Adventure Continues Comically Missing the Point Hope Spot Madness Mantra Parental Abandonment Training Montage Scenery Porn Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Evil Counterpart What Happened to the Mouse? Visual Pun Bad Boss Psychological Thriller Shower Scene Kubrick Stare He Knows Too Much Bait-and-Switch Establishing Character Moment Animal Motifs Those Two Bad Guys Rule of Cool Conspicuous CG Homage Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Dirty Cop Adults Are Useless Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Based on a True Story You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Shoot the Shaggy Dog The Dragon Dressing as the Enemy Dual Wielding Brick Joke Oh, Crap! Early-Bird Cameo Crapsack World Romantic False Lead Hair-Trigger Temper Serial Killer The Stoner The Chessmaster Armor-Piercing Question Almost Kiss Blood from the Mouth The Big Guy Award-Bait Song Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! 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Guy Overprotective Dad Does This Remind You of Anything? Extremely Short Timespan Cluster F-Bomb Riddle for the Ages Big Eater Artistic License – Law Antagonist Title "Where Are They Now?" 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Contrived Coincidence Time Skip Really Gets Around Interrupted Suicide Reality Has No Subtitles Black Comedy Silence Is Golden All There in the Script Artistic License – History Abhorrent Admirer Russian Films Made of Iron Works Set in World War II One Steve Limit I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Fantastic Racism Hollywood Darkness Adaptational Heroism Driven to Suicide Made of Explodium What the Hell, Hero? Dirty Old Man Beta Couple Broken Aesop Double Entendre Foil Dying Moment of Awesome The Starscream A God Am I Failed a Spot Check Manipulative Bastard Action Survivor The Great Depression Disney Death Crazy Jealous Guy The Bully Determinator aka: The Determinator Department of Redundancy Department The Place Loophole Abuse Flipping the Bird As You Know Belligerent Sexual Tension The Bad Guy Wins Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Suddenly SHOUTING! The Power of Love Heel–Face Turn Femme Fatale The '80s Here We Go Again! 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