Tropescilloscope: Rule of Funny

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

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