Tropescilloscope: Dramedy

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

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