Tropescilloscope: Black Comedy

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

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