LunaLovegoodChalice
Since: Jun, 2022
naturalironist
Since: Jul, 2016
Aug 16th 2020 at 8:17:39 PM
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There are currently a lot of examples on here that ignore the third paragraph of the description by not counting as a drama. These entries clearly violate the stipulation that adventure and speculative fiction plots rarely count by having plots that are not predominantly driven by the personalities of individual characters' personalities and mundane, everyday problems. Just because a work has well-written characters does not mean it's primarily character-driven.
I am removing the following entries for these reasons. Please discuss here if you want to reinstate them:
Examples:
- Hayate the Combat Butler: Action-comedy, not drama-comedy
- Soul Eater: Shonen adventure show
- Space☆Dandy: Adventure show, also almost entirely comedy
- Zombieland Saga: Horror Comedy with fantastic premise
- All the video game entries have plots driven by Speculative Fiction and/or adventure, with the exception of YIIK: A Post-Modern RPG and possibly Video Game/MOTHER (I haven't played it but it might have enough mundane elements to count).
- Addictive Science, Captain Ufo, Cucumber Quest, Homestuck, Iron Violet: The Shy Titan, and Neo Kosmos all have fantastical elements as the central part of the plot.
- Similarly, Dragon Ball Z Abridged,Sword Art Online Abridged are adventure stories
- Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog superhero story
- Hazbin Hotel Horror Comedy
- Red Vs Blue: Adventure comedy with Cerebus Syndrome
- RWBY: Adventure story all the way
- Western Animation with an adventure/fantasy/superhero-driven plot: The Adventures of Puss in Boots, Adventure Time, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Ben 10, Disenchantment, Ducktales 2017, Gargoyles, Miraculous Ladybug, Rick and Morty, Samurai Jack, Steven Universe, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987) (entry admits its action-comedy), Teen Titans (also admits its an action show), The Venture Brothers, Voltron: Legendary Defender
Tremmor19
Since: Dec, 2018
Oct 14th 2021 at 10:17:23 PM
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for the same reason as above, i removed (or re-removed) these examples
- Johnny the Homicidal Maniac - Filled with Jhonen Vasquez's dark absurdist sense of humor, but dives into serious topics at least once an issue, and more with each one.
- High School DXD
- Sailor Moon
- Trigun
- Deadpool
- Dick Tracy
- Saga
- Kick-Ass
- Disney movies are oftentimes both dramatic and silly. Typically there's an overall dramatic and emotional plot line, but almost all movies feature wacky sidekick characters providing lots of comedic scenes in-between. However, they do tend to vary in the comedy and drama ratio.
- Disney's subsidiary Pixar follows the parent studio's pattern in presenting dramatic stories mixed with comedic scenes.
- Steven Universe: The Movie
- Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
- An American Tail - Specifically, the original movie. While it had downright heart-wrenching moments, there were some funny moments in between.
- The Land Before Time - Known for a tear-jerking scene involving Littlefoot's mother, the movie still has sillier moments in between more serious ones.
- Ice Age - Originally it was going to be solely a drama, as well as a 2D animated feature directed by Don Bluth, but when it was brought over to Blue Sky Studios, Fox would only accept the movie as a children's comedy, so the makers of the movie decided to mix both genres. The sequels past the second one are straight-up comedy, lacking the drama of the first two movies.
- The Owl House
- Gravity Falls
- Avatar: The Last Airbender might perhaps be described as having a perfect balance between the comedic moments (of which there are many) and the more serious overarching plot. Of course, it's worth noting that some characters provide more comic relief than others — most especially Sokka, the primary Deadpan Snarker and Butt-Monkey of the main cast.
- Star vs. the Forces of Evil
- Dragon Ball
and these for just being comedies
- The Simpsons is an interesting example. The first three seasons were definitely the gloomiest ones, then it went Denser and Wackier in Seasons 4 to 12 (though even those seasons had their share of emotional scenes). Come Season 13, the show entered this zone again (albeit not quite to the extent of the first three seasons).
- South Park: There have been numerous episodes that put focus on this genre, with "Kenny Dies" being the most prominent example. Recently there have been Story Arcs lasting entire seasons, putting more emphasis on story building and consequences of each episodes, though they still carry out their traditional Black Comedy.
SeptimusHeap
MOD
(Edited uphill both ways)
Mar 20th 2021 at 9:14:02 AM
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Previous Trope Repair Shop thread: Misused
, started by PistolsAtDawn on Aug 16th 2017 at 6:53:44 AM
Aelesis
Aelesis
Since: Apr, 2010
Aelesis
Jul 9th 2011 at 6:00:58 AM
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Should this get a page quote? I have one in mind if so... anyone know that episode of The Grim Adventures Of Billy And Mandy where Grim is talking about a Dramedy... a dramedy fart?
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Removed the following:
Mostly per not being Drama, they are adventure stories
General Examples
Action/Advenure/Fantasy, not Drama
Comedy
- South Park
Edited by Tremmor19