Romantic irony?

[resonant]

Me: Occurred to me today that there's a subset of dramatic irony specific to romance. We know Darcy loves Lizzy ... but in her POV we understand why she doesn't know it.

terminally_underwhelmed: Comedy, horror, and romance all rely on our experience of watching characters discover what we already know.

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[mific]

Lookin' at you, John and Rodney.

[resonant]

And what we know that you don't know is that you're an idiot. (True no matter which of them we're talking to.)