Tropescilloscope: Laughing Mad

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

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