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