Tropescilloscope: Horror Comedy

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