Tropescilloscope: Irony

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

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