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