Tropescilloscope: Laughing Mad

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

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