Tropescilloscope: Hypocritical Humor

Hypocrisy played for laughs. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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