Tropescilloscope: Hypocritical Humor

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

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