History Irony / LiveActionFilm

* In ''Film/TheCrow'', the main character is immune to bullets after rising from the dead and laughs about how bullets can't hurt him. Considering that Brandon Lee was accidentally shot and killed during production, this is both sad and ironic.

* ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'', the person who led the extermination of the mutants is also a mutant, in this particular case an achondroplasic dwarf.

** Despite Hammond's [[{{Catchphrase}} constant declarations]] of "we've spared no expense", his entire dream is undone by the one expense he ''did'' skimp on: leaving all of the park's electronic security measures for incredibly dangerous animals in the hands of a single underpaid IT guy who ends up betraying him partly out of spite.

* [[TrumanShowPlot The whole concept]] of ''Film/TheTrumanShow'' is the dramatic irony.
* At the end of ''Film/{{UHF}}'', [[spoiler: the bum saves the station by buying the remaining shares. He gets the money by selling the rare penny that R.J. Fletcher gave him earlier.]] This is ironic for two reasons: 1)[[spoiler: The villain supplied the means for his own defeat]], and 2)[[spoiler: he gives the bum a seemingly worthless penny which turns out to be extremely valuable.]]

* The ''Franchise/{{Spiderman}}'' movies in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse get this with their titles and the fact that the title superhero is played by British actor Creator/TomHolland. ''Film/SpidermanHomecoming'' takes place entirely in the United States while ''Film/SpidermanFarFromHome'' takes place mostly in Europe, including England.

* ''Film/AvatarTheWayOfWater'': Kiri's birth mother was the [[RemoteBody avatar]] of Grace Augustine, the human scientist who's life's work was to build peaceful ties between the "Sky People" and the Na'vi. Spider's birth father was [[spoiler:Miles Quaritch, the RDA security leader who oversaw the slaughter of many Na'vi and who was directly responsible for Grace Augustine's death]]. But in the present, Kiri and Spider are adopted siblings who haven't got the slightest bit of animosity toward each other -- indeed, they seem to be closer to each other than anyone else in their adoptive family.

** Loki, the God of Lies, was lied to by his foster father his whole life.

* In ''Film/MeanGirls 2'', it is ironic that a girl named Chastity will sleep with AnythingThatMoves. (Well, until she learns what her name means that is.)

** [[spoiler: Mac]] from ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheKingdomOfTheCrystalSkull'' sides with the [[DirtyCommunists Soviet Russians]] becasue he's a capitalist "and they pay."

* In ''Once Upon A Crime'', Augie is questioned by the lead detective in the murder case. Having no alibi, he lies and says he was with his wife in their hotel room at the time of the murder. The detective reveals that a witness saw a man leave the room via the fire escape. Augie claims that the man was himself and the detective asks him to recreate the route. The fire escape is just the first part of a series of tasks the man performed that Augie now must recreate. When he finishes trying to prove his innocence, the detective confirms that he matched the mysterious man's route...[[spoiler: and ended up at the scene of the crime.]]

* In ''[[Film/TheFastAndTheFurious Furious 7]]'', Roman insists on planning the attack on the convoy to rescue Ramsey. After he chooses an insertion point, he lets Tej choose how to use it. Tej suggests air dropping their vehicles into the insertion point. When it comes time to do that, Roman is the one who chickens out.

* ''Film/TheFinal'' opens with a scene of a girl in a restaurant with her face horribly disfigured. She orders a burger. The movie flashes back a while ago and you hear a throwaway line from a vapid teenage girl "Red meat is for people who don't care what they look like". Said girl [[spoiler: ends up getting a compound smeared on her face that erodes her skin away]]. It could be either tragic or dramatic irony.

-->'''Poe:''' The ''one'' time we need you to talk, you can't?
-->'''Threepio:''' Irony, sir.

* ''Film/OneNightInOctober'': In the latter half of Michelle's story, Hewitt, one of the three people robbing her house, sits down and watches a horror movie on her [=TV=]. At one point, he tells the protagonist on the movie to "turn around", unaware that Michelle is right behind him wearing a skull mask and wielding [[AnAxeToGrind an axe]].

* In ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'', the Hulkbuster armor is piloted by Bruce Banner, a.k.a. ComicBook/TheHulk.

** Loki, the God of Lies, was lied to his whole life.

* At one point of ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'', Black Widow reveals that she's sterile due to the practice of the organization that trained her. Her actress, Creator/ScarlettJohansson, was pregnant during filming.

* At the ending of ''Film/TheHuntForRedOctober'' Captain Ramius and the rest of the defectors fake a reactor malfunction in order to get the doctor and crew off the ship, while they stay behind, ostensibly to scuttle the ship, but in reality to turn it over to the Americans. When the doctor hears about Ramius' "self-sacrifice" he solemnly swears that he will ensure that Ramius receives the Order of Lenin when he gets home.

--> "How ironic, Tony! Trying to rid the world of weapons, you gave it its best one ever!"