Tropescilloscope: Corpsing

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

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