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