Tropescilloscope: Horror Comedy

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