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