Tropescilloscope: Horror Comedy

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