Tropescilloscope: Irony

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

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