Tropescilloscope: Dramedy

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

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