Tropescilloscope: Romantic Comedy

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