Tropescilloscope: Corpsing

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

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