Tropescilloscope: Horror Comedy

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