Tropescilloscope: Ironic Echo

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