Tropescilloscope: Plucky Comic Relief

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

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