Tropescilloscope: Death by Irony

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

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