Tropescilloscope: Dramedy

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

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