Tropescilloscope: Irony

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

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