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