Tropescilloscope: Rule of Funny

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

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