Tropescilloscope: Ironic Echo

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