Tropescilloscope: Hypocritical Humor

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

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