Tropescilloscope: Horror Comedy

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