Tropescilloscope: Black Comedy

Serious and horrible things Played for Laughs. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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