Tropescilloscope: Hypocritical Humor

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

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