Tropescilloscope: Dramedy

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

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