Tropescilloscope: Black Comedy

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

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