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