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)

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