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