Tropescilloscope: Horror Comedy

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