Tropescilloscope: Black Comedy

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

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