Tropescilloscope: Rule of Funny

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

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