Tropescilloscope: Corpsing

Cracking up while trying to keep a straight face. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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