Tropescilloscope: Dramedy

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

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