Tropescilloscope: Black Comedy

Serious and horrible things Played for Laughs. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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