Tropescilloscope: Plucky Comic Relief

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

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