History IronicEcho / LiveActionFilms

* ''Film/BlueBeetle2023'': During their first fight at Kord Industries, Carapax said to Jaime at one point if he should have killed him when he had the chance. Later on in the climax, an enraged Jaime says the same thing back to Carapax while he [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown beats him up]] in revenge for his actions inflicted upon him and his family.

* In the original film ''Film/TheCrow'' Albrect confronts Eric, saying "you move and you're dead". Based on his current situation, Eric's reply is "I'm dead and I move".

* ''Film/AngerOfTheDead'': Before [[spoiler:having Stephen killed]], Rooker tells Alice "You ain't in Wonderland anymore.". Before [[spoiler: sealing him in a vent with a zombie]], Alice tells Rooker "You ain't in Wonderland anymore.".

* ''Film/AngerOfTheDead'': Before [[spoiler:having Stephen killed]], Rooker tells Alice "You ain't in Wonderland anymore.". Before [[spoiler:sealing him in a vent with a zombie]], Alice tells Rooker "You ain't in Wonderland anymore.".

* Lampshaded in ''Film/GoodWillHunting'', Creator/RobinWilliams' line [[spoiler:Sorry, I have to go see about a girl.]] is later used by Matt Damon and Robin Williams reply is "Son of a bitch, stole my line."

* ''Film/GuyanaCrimeOfTheCentury'': The motto of Johnson's Temple is borrowed from George Santayana: "Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat it". At one point, Anna reminds Johnson of it during one of their intimate talks. During the movie's ending, after the murder-suicide of all the followers, the camera points at the billboard in the pavillion where the motto is written, indicating that the while tragedy is an unfortunate example of what happens when nobody heeds it.

** In ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix'', as in [[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix the book]], Professor Umbridge forces Harry to copy lines using a magic pen that etches the words "I must not tell lies" into the back of his hand. He proves how well he learned his lesson when, under attack by enraged centaurs, Umbridge [[DirtyCoward begs him to tell them she means them no harm.]] "Sorry, Professor. I must not tell lies."

* ''Film/TheHobbitTheDesolationOfSmaug'': After the Company's first encounter with Beorn in his bear form, Dori claims that he is bewitched with the line "It's not natural, none of it." This is the same line spoken by Samwise Gamgee in the Extended Edition of ''Film/TheTwoTowers'' when he and Frodo Baggins are descending a cliff in Emyn Muil.

* In ''Film/KingsmanTheSecretService'', just after the church scene, Valentine is about to kill Harry. Before he does it, he suggests that Harry would find out about his plan, but retorts by saying [[WellThisIsNotThatTrope "Well, this ain't that kind of movie."]]. Near the end of the movie, just as [[spoiler:Valentine is dying, he suggests that Eggsy would make a BondOneLiner, but Eggsy throws the same line, almost verbatim, back to him in response, to Valentine's surprising amusement]].

* ''Film/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen''. While hunting Mr. Hyde, Quatermain saves Sawyer from being injured by falling masonry and tells him "Eyes open, boy. I can't protect you all the time". Near the end Sawyer protects Quatermain from [[spoiler:Moriarty]]'s attack and repeats the line back to him.

* ''Film/LesMiserables2012'' has a ''visual'' Ironic Echo. During "Stars", there's a significant and striking high-angle shot of Javert's feet as he walks along the edge of a building. It's supposed to make him seem confident and dominant. The exact same shot is repeated [[spoiler:just before he commits suicide]].

** Also in ''The Two Towers'', Théoden makes a comment that they (the ones at Helm's Deep) are alone. At the end, when all seems lost, Éomer shows up with reinforcements, saying that Théoden isn't alone.

* In ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'', the phrase "Witness me!" is introduced early on as a rallying cry for the BrainwashedAndCrazy army of "[[TykeBomb War Boys]]" to shout before they [[DeathSeeker die gloriously in battle]], in the service of their GodEmperor. Late in the film, Nux, a War Boy who [[spoiler: has [[HeelFaceTurn turned against his army to help Furiosa and the Wives escape slavery]]]] whispers "witness me" as he [[spoiler: blows up himself and the rig to keep the army from following them]].

** In ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows'', he does it to her ''again'' when she's trying to force a {{muggle|s}}-born witch to confess to stealing her wand from someone else. As it happens, neither of these instances occurred in the books; they were added to the movies as a bit of cruel irony.
** ''Film/FantasticBeastsAndWhereToFindThem'': Early on, while Jacob is trying to look/sound impressive to Queenie while he and Newt are staying in the Goldstein Sisters' apartment, Queenie asks him if there are a lot of no-majs like Jacob, and he replies "there are none like me". Later on, before he subjects himself to his VictoryGuidedAmnesia, he tries to let Queenie go by saying there's lots of guys like him, to which she replies with the same line back at him.
** ''Film/FantasticBeastsTheCrimesOfGrindelwald'': Before storming off from Newt's house, Queenie states that Jacob considers her crazy for forcing him to marry her with love potion. Queenie is a Legilimens, aka someone who can read minds, but since Jacob denies it, it's unclear if he thought so. Then comes the climax. Just before Queenie leaves to join the BigBad Grindelwald (once again, because she wants to marry him), Jacob personally says that she really is crazy.
* ''Film/TheHobbitTheDesolationOfSmaug'': After the Company's first encounter with Beorn in his bear form, Dori claims that he is bewitched with the line "It's not natural, none of it." This the same line spoken by Samwise Gamgee in the Extended Edition of ''Film/TheTwoTowers'' when he and Frodo Baggins are descending a cliff in Emyn Muil.
* ''Film/HomeAlone1'' also has a visual IronicEcho. Several times when Old Man Marley, the MisunderstoodLonerWithAHeartOfGold, appears to Kevin, it begins by showing only his heavy boots complete with scary music. The first few times it`s supposed to convey Kevin`s fear of him. The final time he arrives to save Kevin and it's the burglars who are supposed to be afraid.

* In ''Film/TheHungerGamesMockingjayPart2'', [[spoiler:President Snow reminds Katniss about their "promise" not to lie to each other after telling her about President Coin's actions]].
* In ''Film/ICantThinkStraight'', the newly outed Leyla tries to convince Tala (the woman whom she's been having an affair with) to leave her fiance and come out as well so they can be together. Noticing Tala's reluctance, Leyla asks if Tala is in love with her fiance. Tala responds with; "There are things I love about him." Later on in the film, after meeting Leyla's new girlfriend, the now single Tala asks Leyla if she loves said new girlfriend. Leyla's response? "There are things I love about her."

* ''Film/InglouriousBasterds'': At the very first scene, Hans Landa makes a speech about how he is capable of thinking like a Jew:

** In ''Film/GoldenEye'', Alec Trevelyan, during his last mission with James Bond, declared "For England!" before being seemingly killed. Later, when he revealed himself as the villain Janus, he muttered "For England" after knocking Bond unconscious. At the end of their final fight, when Bond has Trevelyan at his mercy, Trevelyan says, "For England, James?" Bond answers, "No. For me," before letting Trevelyan plunge to his death.

* In ''Film/JurassicPark'', Hammond repeatedly tells everybody very proudly "We've spared no expense." After the park goes completely to hell and his beloved grandchildren and Dr. Grant go missing, he talks with Dr. Sattler. He tries to explain the park to her, and she points out that the park was always doomed. Hammond is clearly completely broken, and she tries to make him feel better by complimenting the ice-cream, and he once again says, without any of his previous pride, "We spared no expense..."

* A hilarious example of this is in ''Film/TheKarateKidPartII'', the JerkJock of a martial arts teacher's saying is, "Mercy is for the weak. We do not train to be merciful here. A man who faces you is the enemy. Enemies deserve no mercy." which he drills into his students with full force. In the sequel he gets pissed off at the fact that his number one pupil lost to Mr. Miyagi's student who he thinks is a joke. So he takes it out on his pupils after he lost and starts to almost kill one of them until Mr. Miyagi tells him to stop. He doesn't listen and tries to take out Mr. Miyagi. He consequently ends up with hands full of shattered glass -- [[DeadlyDodging Mr. Miyagi didn't even touch him, it was all his own doing]]. Mr. Miyagi drops him to his knees with one hand and prepares the other for a lethal blow to his throat, and in a dangerous voice repeats the line: "Mercy is for the weak. We do not train to be merciful here. A man who face you he is enemy. Enemy deserve no mercy."

*** Lebron admonishes his son Dom for "letting [him] do [him]". Later, [[spoiler: Al-G tosses the very same phrase at Dom (preceded by an admonishment that his father was right about him) when he makes it clear just how unhappy he is at Dom for abandoning the Goon Squad.]]

*** After Lebron James refused his offer to be part of the Warner 3000 movies saying he wants to focus on his game, Al-G responds by challenging him to a game of basketball.

* ''Film/DCExtendedUniverse'':

* ''[[Film/BadTimesAtTheBattleRoyale Bad Times at the Battle Royale]]'': [[spoiler:Before unveiling the quiz show]], Emily notes that "most battle royales will have a fight to the death as the last round" before subverting those expectations with [[spoiler:the quiz show reveal]]. Later, [[spoiler:as part of the haunted ambience after Jason forced Johnson into a fight to the death, one of the continuously repeating and echoing lines of dialogue is that very same line.]]

* ''Film/JusticeLeague2017'': [[spoiler:"[[Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice Do you bleed?]]"]]

* In ''Film/ManOfSteel'', with no other options but unwilling to give up, Colonel Hardy tries to use a knife against Faora. Impressed, Faora draws her own knife and says, "A good death is its own reward." Later, Hardy says this line back to her, [[spoiler:right before he [[HeroicSacrifice crashes his plane into General Zod's ship]] and activates the PhantomZone portal.]]

* ''Film/Shazam2019'': After acquiring powers Sivana repeats words his father and brother said to him decades earlier before killing them, and even brings along a Magic 8-Ball as a prop so he can echo them more effectively. While sinister, it also reveals that though he may appear much more mature than the kid superhero he's about to face, he's never grown past his own teenage traumas.

** After Lebron James refused his offer to be part of the Warner 3000 movies saying he wants to focus on his game, Al-G responds by challenging him to a game of basketball.
--->'''Al-G Rhythm:''' You said you wanted to "focus on your game". Well, now you can "focus on this game".
** Lebron admonishes his son Dom for "letting [him] do [him]". Later, [[spoiler: Al-G tosses the very same phrase at Dom (preceded by an admonishment that his father was right about him) when he makes it clear just how unhappy he is at Dom for abandoning the Goon Squad.]]

* Early in ''Film/KindergartenCop'', the school runs a fire drill. At this point, the main character has only recently been put in charge of his kindergarten class and has not learned to deal with them, so while all the other students are calmly performing the fire drill in an efficient and orderly manner, the kindergarteners are running around screaming and basically acting like uncontrollable monsters. Towards the climax, the villain triggers the fire alarm as a distraction. We see everyone, clearly not expecting this, running around panicking and the school in chaos... except the kindergarten class, who are calmly performing the fire drill in an efficient and orderly manner.

* ''The Roommate'': A rare example that doesn't work. When Rebecca and Sara are in the former's hometown, Sara sees the girl that Rebecca used to stalk approach them after saying hi and say "We were never friends." Sara later repeats the line during the climax when she fatally stabs Rebecca with the box cutter. The line doesn't work because while Rebecca didn't have an actual friendship with the other girl, she did develop some sort of genuine dynamic with Sara that could have been a friendship had things gone differently. Thus, it was inappropriate for Sara to claim with that line that she never cared for her or had something like that with her just to ironically echo the line. Would have been more appropriate if she'd instead said "We're not friends anymore," but that would not have been this trope.

--->'''Barbossa:''' ''(after Elizabeth tells him to leave)'' I am disinclined to acquiesce to your request.\\
''Later in the movie, when he sends Ragetti to request that she join Barbossa for dinner.''\\

--->'''Elizabeth:''' ''(after failing to convince to the other pirates to go back with her for Jack)'' Bloody pirates.\\
''A little later on...''\\
'''Ragetti:''' ''(seeing the ''Black Pearl'' sailing off)'' Is it supposed to be doing that?\\

*** How about this one?
--->'''Norrington:''' You are without doubt the worst pirate I've ever heard of.\\
Later...\\
'''Groves:''' He must be the best pirate I've ever seen!\\
'''Norrington:''' So it would seem.

--->'''Pintel:''' Damn to the depths whatever man what thought of parley!\\

*** At the beginning of the film, Elizabeth lets out a shocked "You're a pirate," when she finds the "pirate medallion" around Will's neck. At the end, she proudly says "he's a pirate" to correct her father when he laments that she's falling in love with a blacksmith.

* ''Film/BackToTheFuture'':