Tropescilloscope: Hypocritical Humor

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

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