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