Tropescilloscope: Laughing Mad

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

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