Tropescilloscope: Rule of Funny

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

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