Tropescilloscope: Hypocritical Humor

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

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