Tropescilloscope: Horror Comedy

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