Tropescilloscope: Dramedy

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

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