Tropescilloscope: Hypocritical Humor

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

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