Tropescilloscope: Plucky Comic Relief

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

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