Tropescilloscope: Irony

An outcome of events contrary to what was, or might have been, expected. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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