Tropescilloscope: Hypocritical Humor

Hypocrisy played for laughs. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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