Tropescilloscope: Plucky Comic Relief

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

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