Tropescilloscope: Dramedy

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

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