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