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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Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Good Is Not Nice Henpecked Husband Italian Films Celebrity Paradox Sports Stories Rule of Cool Evil Brit Fire-Forged Friends Male Frontal Nudity Faux Affably Evil Destination Defenestration Noodle Incident Mr. Exposition Epic Fail Psychopathic Manchild The X of Y Obviously Evil The Alleged Car Pre-Mortem One-Liner Our Zombies Are Different Deal with the Devil The '90s Affectionate Parody Madness Mantra Combat Pragmatist Badass in a Nice Suit Wounded Gazelle Gambit Race Against the Clock Serious Business Authority Equals Asskicking Catapult Nightmare Film Noir Maybe Ever After folderlabel Kill 'em All Heroic BSoD Character Development Manchild The Starscream Pragmatic Adaptation Twist Ending Word of God One-Man Army MacGuffin Death of a Child Mind Screw German Films "The Reason You Suck" Speech What Happened to the Mouse? You Have Outlived Your Usefulness The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Corrupt Corporate Executive Evil Counterpart Grievous Bottley Harm Broken Bird Villain Ball The Quiet One Wrong Genre Savvy Cat Fight Fantasy Films Drives Like Crazy Famous Last Words Science Fiction Films Greater-Scope Villain Stuff Blowing Up Beard of Evil Asshole Victim Alpha Bitch Toplessness from the Back Driven to Suicide Retcon The Smurfette Principle Fan Disservice Karmic Death Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Dressing as the Enemy Easily Forgiven Betty and Veronica Hair-Trigger Temper Made of Explodium Big Eater Knight Templar All There in the Script Expy The Dreaded Extreme Doormat Video Credits Berserk Button Reasonable Authority Figure Offscreen Teleportation Interrupted Suicide Stealth Hi/Bye Never Trust a Trailer Taking the Bullet Cool Old Lady Dogged Nice Guy Made of Iron Very Loosely Based on a True Story Get Out! 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Or Is It? 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Curse Cut Short Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Let's Get Dangerous! 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Karma Houdini Wicked Cultured Determinator Big Damn Heroes Bring My Brown Pants Alliterative Name Historical In-Joke Sir Swears-a-Lot Jerk Jock Dirty Old Man This Is Gonna Suck Disney Villain Death Dying Moment of Awesome Adults Are Useless Properly Paranoid Punch-Clock Villain Facial Horror Fatal Flaw Dark Reprise Bait-and-Switch