Tropescilloscope: Plucky Comic Relief

A character whose main purpose is comedy. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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