Tropescilloscope: Rule of Funny

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

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