Tropescilloscope: Laughing Mad

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

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