Tropescilloscope: Irony

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

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