Basic Trope: An otherwise comedic work has a moment that is meant to be serious and often dramatic, usually to give the work some more depth.
- Straight: The Tropers is mostly a lighthearted comedy, but the scene where Bob has a Disney Death is Played for Drama, and the additional characters are genuinely saddened by his apparent death.
- Exaggerated: The Tropers is a hilarious comedy until Bob's successful Heroic Sacrifice, and the rest of the film becomes a drama.
- Downplayed: Most of the work is a comedy, but there's a short Tear Jerker moment where Alice talks about her Disappeared Dad.
- Justified: ???
- Inverted: Serious Work, Comedic Scene
- Subverted: The Disney Death looks like it's going to be taken seriously, but it instead has Bob suddenly jump up and yell "Surprise!" instead, revealing he planned it all along.
- Double Subverted: However, the other characters don't find it funny, and it leads to a Plot-Mandated Friendship Failure which is taken seriously.
- Parodied: The film suddenly has a moment where all of the characters tell sad stories in a Crosses the Line Twice way because "we have to make this story have depth somehow!", which is just treated as a Big-Lipped Alligator Moment once it's over.
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted:
- The Tropers is a Dramedy and remains that way.
- There are no dramatic scenes in the comedy The Tropers.
- Enforced:
- The writers were worried that audiences wouldn't like the movie as much due to it being a comedy, so they add some dramatic moments to give the movie some more depth.
- The actors are trying to show how they really can act.
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: "The Tropers has a lot of Funny Moments, but I almost cried at the scene where Bob apparently died."
Back to Comedic Work, Serious Scene
