Tropescilloscope: Hypocritical Humor

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

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