Tropescilloscope: Black Comedy

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

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