Tropescilloscope: Amusing Injuries

Rule of Funny means slapstick injuries don't have lasting consequences. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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