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