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