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