Tropescilloscope: Horror Comedy

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