Tropescilloscope: Department of Redundancy Department

Humorous and funny repetition for the sake of comedy and humor, which is created by humorous and funny repetition. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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