Tropescilloscope: Horror Comedy

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