Tropescilloscope: Plucky Comic Relief

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

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