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