Tropescilloscope: Laughing Mad

Laughter as an expression of insanity. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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