Tropescilloscope: Irony

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

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