Tropescilloscope: Dramatic Irony

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

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Insult Backfire Lampshade Hanging Epic Fail Crucified Hero Shot Spiritual Successor Evil Is Hammy Becoming the Mask He Who Fights Monsters Training Montage Alliterative Name Genre Savvy Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds All Girls Want Bad Boys Mind Screw NO INDOOR VOICE Silence Is Golden Punny Name Curse Cut Short Cowboy Cop '80s Hair Shown Their Work Yandere Almost Kiss Never Found the Body Department of Redundancy Department Jitter Cam Even Evil Has Loved Ones Dirty Old Man Adapted Out The Faceless Have a Gay Old Time Properly Paranoid Shut Up, Hannibal! Developing Doomed Characters Break the Haughty Karma Houdini Maybe Ever After Fate Worse than Death Insane Troll Logic Asshole Victim Easily Forgiven You Have Failed Me Naïve Newcomer Humiliation Conga Crazy-Prepared Cat Fight Fat Bastard Evil Laugh Dutch Angle Sci-Fi Horror Eyepatch of Power timeperiod Faking the Dead Precision F-Strike Canadian Movies Grievous Bottley Harm Protagonist Title Pretty in Mink Sexy Discretion Shot Calling the Old Man Out Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Does This Remind You of Anything? 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Re-Cut Jump Scare Reality Is Unrealistic Costume Porn Taking You with Me Fantastic Racism Rule of Funny Even Evil Has Standards Those Two Guys Evil-Detecting Dog The Smurfette Principle Didn't Think This Through Riddle for the Ages As the Good Book Says... 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