Tropescilloscope: Rule of Funny

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

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