Tropescilloscope: Horror Comedy

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