Tropescilloscope: Dramedy

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

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