Tropescilloscope: Plucky Comic Relief

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

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