Tropescilloscope: Comically Missing the Point

A character humorously misunderstands another person's point. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Taking the Bullet Obviously Evil Bond One-Liner An Axe to Grind Extreme Doormat Ascended Extra Offscreen Teleportation Continuity Nod Apocalypse How Protagonist Title Bilingual Bonus Babies Ever After Improbable Aiming Skills The Ace Love at First Sight Artistic License – Biology Flashback Informed Ability Vampire Fiction Madness Mantra I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Those Two Guys Mundane Made Awesome Enemy Mine Naïve Newcomer As You Know My Beloved Smother Abusive Parents Damsel in Distress Animal Motifs I Did What I Had to Do Black Comedy Rape Alpha Bitch Neck Snap Interrupted Suicide The Alleged Car Small Name, Big Ego Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Only Known by Their Nickname Poor Communication Kills Dramatic Gun Cock For the Evulz Rape as Drama Victoria's Secret Compartment Disproportionate Retribution Crapsack World Horror Films No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Slasher Movie It Will Never Catch On You Have Outlived Your Usefulness MacGuffin Room Full of Crazy Decoy Protagonist May–December Romance Brainless Beauty Ripped from the Headlines Everyone Has Standards Belligerent Sexual Tension Wicked Cultured Does Not Like Shoes Chase Scene Badass Longcoat Evil Brit Irony Black Comedy Arch-Enemy Man on Fire Screw the Rules, I Have Money! No Ending Early-Bird Cameo Grey and Gray Morality What Happened to the Mouse? He Who Fights Monsters Not Using the "Z" Word "The Reason You Suck" Speech She's Got Legs The Chessmaster Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Author Avatar Curb-Stomp Battle Race Lift Star-Crossed Lovers The Stoic What You Are in the Dark The Load Camp Gay She Cleans Up Nicely Villainous Breakdown Scenery Gorn Darker and Edgier Imagine Spot Reality Is Unrealistic Straight Gay Up to Eleven Dull Surprise Police Brutality Red Herring Slap-Slap-Kiss Light Is Not Good Wretched Hive Cool Shades Married to the Job Your Cheating Heart Gainax Ending Eldritch Abomination Pretty Little Headshots Bound and Gagged Attempted Rape Dressing as the Enemy Anyone Can Die Obstructive Bureaucrat Animal Title Index The Smart Guy Drives Like Crazy Badass in a Nice Suit Silent Movie Biopic Stylistic Suck Ship Tease Anachronism Stew British Films Foreshadowing Hidden Depths Faking the Dead Film Noir Blackmail Bloodier and Gorier Dropped a Bridge on Him A Father to His Men Children Are Innocent Word of God Crucified Hero Shot Composite Character Dirty Cop Death by Adaptation Historical-Domain Character Loads and Loads of Characters Important Haircut Big Brother Instinct The Stoner Corpsing An Aesop Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Nothing Is Scarier Bunny-Ears Lawyer Credits Gag Mystery and Detective Films Bad "Bad Acting" Black Dude Dies First Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Combat Pragmatist Video Credits Ominous Latin Chanting For Want of a Nail The Smurfette Principle Unusual Euphemism Shirtless Scene The Cavalry Unspoken Plan Guarantee Unresolved Sexual Tension Well-Intentioned Extremist Kubrick Stare Funny Background Event Suspiciously Similar Substitute The Lost Lenore Department of Redundancy Department Bait-and-Switch Batman Gambit Heroic BSoD Evil Sounds Deep Artistic License – Military Bald of Evil Posthumous Character Fake Shemp Gold Digger Expository Hairstyle Change The Dog Bites Back Artistic License – Physics The Great Depression Bloody Hilarious Almost Kiss "Shaggy Dog" Story Bullying a Dragon Hypocrite Thriller Fanservice Extra A Minor Kidroduction The Bad Guy Wins Book-Ends Car Fu Big Applesauce Expy Jitter Cam Humans Are Bastards Bavarian Fire Drill No-Sell Creepy Child Mistaken for Gay Narrator Berserk Button Every Car Is a Pinto Happily Married Greater-Scope Villain Overly Long Gag Cool Guns All There in the Script Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Bland-Name Product Black and Gray Morality Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Central Theme Air-Vent Passageway O.O.C. Is Serious Business Five-Man Band Break the Cutie Deal with the Devil Rasputinian Death Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie 20 Minutes into the Future More Dakka Tempting Fate Sir Swears-a-Lot Determinator aka: The Determinator Dwindling Party Mad Scientist Cloudcuckoolander Fanservice Stealth Pun Big-Bad Ensemble Shower Scene Death Seeker Foregone Conclusion Totally Radical Drowning My Sorrows Historical Villain Upgrade Immune to Bullets Half the Man He Used to Be Ugly Guy, Hot Wife All for Nothing Beware the Nice Ones Names to Run Away from Really Fast Last-Name Basis Auto Erotica Reckless Gun Usage The Bully Frame-Up Chewing the Scenery Green-Eyed Monster Genre Throwback Coming-of-Age Story Creator Cameo The X of Y Bowdlerise Hooker with a Heart of Gold The Casanova Only a Flesh Wound Obfuscating Stupidity Adaptation Name Change Slashed Throat Fantastic Racism Hell Is That Noise Film Series Tap on the Head Documentary Heel Realization Horror Comedy Actually Pretty Funny Creative Closing Credits Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Heel–Face Turn Loophole Abuse Made of Explodium "Well Done, Son!" 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Pimped-Out Dress Determinator Punny Name The Cameo Villain Protagonist Gone Horribly Right True Companions Only in It for the Money Heterosexual Life-Partners Costume Porn Parental Abandonment Didn't Think This Through Outrun the Fireball Insane Troll Logic Stealth Hi/Bye Psychological Thriller There Is No Kill Like Overkill Running Gag Homage Sports Stories Idiot Ball Dogged Nice Guy Big Fancy House Playing Gertrude Shout-Out Adaptational Heroism Those Wacky Nazis Fainting What the Hell, Hero? Ambiguous Ending Adults Are Useless Deliberately Monochrome I Want My Beloved to Be Happy The Brute Guile Hero Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping No OSHA Compliance Bury Your Gays Boom, Headshot! Big Bad Duumvirate Dying Moment of Awesome Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Those Two Bad Guys Badass Grandpa As the Good Book Says... 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Whole Plot Reference Dramedy Dark and Troubled Past The Power of Love Show Within a Show Not So Different Music Stories Retcon Left the Background Music On Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! 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Or Is It? Love Triangle Hollywood Darkness Brutal Honesty Serious Business Vomit Discretion Shot Australian Movies Self-Deprecation Evil Is Petty Fire-Forged Friends Evil Counterpart Ambiguous Disorder Lock and Load Montage I Need a Freaking Drink The Un-Reveal Nice Hat Evil-Detecting Dog Body Horror Double-Meaning Title Affably Evil Sacrificial Lion Take a Third Option Big "NO!" Annoying Younger Sibling Humiliation Conga Jerk with a Heart of Gold Villain with Good Publicity Betty and Veronica Failed a Spot Check Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Evil Is Hammy Have a Gay Old Time Authority Equals Asskicking The Chick Eye Scream Freudian Excuse Country Matters Really Gets Around The '70s Alas, Poor Villain Villain Ball Arc Words Made of Iron Tranquil Fury Earn Your Happy Ending Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Yandere Maybe Ever After Fingore Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Ambiguously Gay Call-Back No Antagonist Femme Fatale Overprotective Dad Stock Footage Rewatch Bonus Captain Ersatz All Girls Want Bad Boys Adaptation Expansion Does This Remind You of Anything? 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Honor Before Reason Military and Warfare Films Fan Disservice The Film of the Book Missing Mom Rule of Three Race Against the Clock Improbable Weapon User How We Got Here The Hero Dies Dark Is Not Evil Psycho for Hire Not What It Looks Like The Ghost The Lancer Russian Films Undying Loyalty Would Hurt a Child Vacation Films Let's Get Dangerous! The Dreaded Wham Line Pet the Dog Leave the Camera Running Drill Sergeant Nasty Rousing Speech Downer Ending Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! As Long as It Sounds Foreign The '50s Bi the Way Grievous Bottley Harm And the Adventure Continues Back from the Dead Vitriolic Best Buds Casting Gag Handicapped Badass Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Eyepatch of Power Karma Houdini Smug Snake Blood Knight Chekhov's Gun Fatal Family Photo Take That! 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This Is Gonna Suck Defiant to the End Cool Old Lady Woman in White Very Loosely Based on a True Story Demoted to Extra All There in the Manual Easily Forgiven Woman Scorned You Killed My Father Unusually Uninteresting Sight Heroes Want Redheads In the Back Adult Fear Canadian Movies Establishing Character Moment Trailers Always Spoil Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Martial Arts Movie Eiffel Tower Effect Deus ex Machina Animated Credits Opening Same Language Dub Sequel Hook The Ditz Based on a True Story Abhorrent Admirer Christmas Movies Index Implacable Man Mugging the Monster Politically Incorrect Villain Cain and Abel Shell-Shocked Veteran Amusing Injuries Cat Scare Logo Joke My God, What Have I Done? The Oner Retirony Papa Wolf Accidental Misnaming Bolivian Army Ending Action Survivor Bad Boss Bare Your Midriff Dies Wide Open Here We Go Again! No Celebrities Were Harmed Adorkable Make It Look Like an Accident Gratuitous English Age Lift Freeze-Frame Bonus Mythology Gag Adaptation Distillation Foil Dirty Coward Sci-Fi Horror Evil Plan Spiritual Successor Visual Pun Fat Bastard Award-Bait Song Covers Always Lie Too Dumb to Live Never Trust a Trailer Face–Heel Turn Ghost Fiction Eureka Moment Real Life Revenge Danny Peary Cult Movies List Not Even Bothering with the Accent Market-Based Title Villain Opening Scene Instant Death Bullet Bittersweet Ending Hong Kong Films Rich Bitch Punch-Clock Villain Deadpan Snarker Italian Films Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Leaning on the Fourth Wall Despair Event Horizon Beard of Evil Fish out of Water Antagonist Title Ms. Fanservice My Greatest Failure Mighty Whitey Nice Guy Anti-Hero Jerkass Has a Point A.I. Is a Crapshoot Beauty Is Never Tarnished Four-Temperament Ensemble Insistent Terminology Soundtrack Dissonance Extremely Short Timespan Kids Are Cruel Red Eyes, Take Warning Kill 'em All Meaningful Background Event Sanity Slippage Improvised Weapon Peek-a-Boo Corpse Laser-Guided Karma Mr. Fanservice No Name Given Drugs Are Bad Chekhov's Skill Your Head A-Splode Not So Stoic Empathic Environment Neck Lift Skewed Priorities Manipulative Bastard Screw This, I'm Outta Here!