Tropescilloscope: Dramedy

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

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