Tropescilloscope: Rule of Funny

Laughter suspends disbelief. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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