Tropescilloscope: Rule of Funny

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

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