Tropescilloscope: Dramedy

A story heavily mixing elements of both comedy and drama. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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