Tropescilloscope: Plucky Comic Relief

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

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