Tropescilloscope: Laughing Mad

Laughter as an expression of insanity. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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