Tropescilloscope: Irony

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

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