Tropescilloscope: Rule of Funny

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

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