Tropescilloscope: Black Comedy

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

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