Tropescilloscope: Irony

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

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