Tropescilloscope: Laughing Mad

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

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