Tropescilloscope: Dramatic Irony

The audience knows something the characters don't, and this is Played for Drama or Laughs. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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