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