History Funny / SkulduggeryPleasant

* While it's a bit sad, watching Val be the awkward adult around Winter (formerly Alice) from the latter's point of view is quite funny.

** On a related note, the worshippers at the Dark Cathedral sing hymns to Val.

* Valkyrie deciding that dingoes are cute and that she wants one as a pet . [[spoiler: While looking after her infant sister.]]

-->[[spoiler: '''Caelan:''']] We're meant for each other.\\

** During another moment with [[spoiler:Caelan]], Valkyrie asks him to stop making so many proclamations about his undying love for her. This is the response:
--->[[spoiler: '''Caelan:''']] [[IResembleThatRemark But my love for you is eternal.]]\\

* Clarabelle's job interview with [[spoiler: Doctor Nye]] somehow manages to be a Crowning Moment of Funny and NightmareFuel at the same time.

*** [[spoiler: It happens AGAIN. This time, the stick's a surprisingly effective magical weapon.]]

* The fact that [[spoiler: Skulduggery's subconscious is going around killing people]] really shouldn't be funny. But then you get this.

* Fletcher telling Val he's [[spoiler: moving to Australia]] partly because Australians 'Talk funny.'

* [[MoodWhiplash In an otherwise tense scene]] in which Skulduggery expresses his loathing of [[spoiler: China Sorrow to her Alternate,]] you get this.

'''[[spoiler: Alternate China:]]''' I refuse to answer ridiculous questions.

-->"Desmond," her mom said from the couch, "don't poke the baby."\\

** [[spoiler: Turns out his AlternateUniverse counterpart actually is married. To a batshit crazy version of Eliza Scorn. Serpine's deadpan assessment of their marriage adds to the hilarity.]]
* Skulduggery's ''abysmal'' attempt to cheer Valkyrie up after [[spoiler:Fletcher gets a new girlfriend.]] Which includes bringing up [[spoiler: Hansard's rejection]] and asking her if she feels "unattractive".

'''Valkyrie:''' Then what do you mean? My God, Skulduggery, just tell me. Be honest with me. [[spoiler: Fletcher's moved on, Hansard doesn't fancy me...]] ''[buries her face in her hands]'' [[SarcasmMode Oh, God. I'm seventeen years old and no one will ever love me. I'm going to be alone for the rest of my life. I've missed my chance. I've missed my chance at happiness. I'm an old maid. Oh, God...]]\\

* Valkyrie cheering up [[spoiler:Alternate Universe Meritorious]]. By showing him VideoGame/AngryBirds on her phone in prison.
* While an [[spoiler: involuntary sex change]] borders on DudeNotFunny, Valkyrie's reaction to [[DistractedByTheSexy Thrasher]] and [[SarcasmFailure Scapegraces's]] [[spoiler: new bodies]] was fairly hilarious.
* [[spoiler:Serpine's]] "did you get lost on your way to kill me?" comment in ''Kingdom of the Wicked'' was quite funny in a ''very'' dark way.

* In ''Kingdom of the Wicked'', [[spoiler: Alternate Lord Vile's]] [[QuizzicalTilt reaction]] to seeing Skulduggery and Skulduggery's little wave back.
* At the end of the incredible fight between [[spoiler: Mevolent]] and Darquesse, Darquesse begins smashing him with fence posts. She stops and [[spoiler: Mevolent]] tries to recover his bearings, and Darquesse [[GrievousHarmwithaBody hits him with a horse]]

* It's ''very'' dark, but in ''Kingdom of the Wicked'' Valkyrie is having a conversation with [[spoiler:Alternate!Mevolent]] and we get this little piece:
-->[[spoiler:'''Alternate!Mevolent''']]: Other stories tell how I eat innocent newborns, how I'm ten feet tall, how I breathe fire and have great dragon wings. None of these are wholly accurate. I don't have dragon wings, I don't breathe fire, I'm only eight feet tall and [[CrossesTheLineTwice I've never eaten a baby that didn't have it coming.]]
* Ghastly's StupidSexyFlanders moment... with [[spoiler: Scapegrace.]]

Oh dear God, she was [[spoiler:Scapegrace.]]
* Erskine Ravel gives Fletcher a [[ChekhovsGun pager]], [[spoiler: which is programmed to incapacitate him when a certain phrase is uttered. This phrase would naturally need to be something that nobody would ever say under normal conditions. What is the phrase? [[RunningGag "Your hair is really cool."]]]]

* Behold! [[spoiler:Grand Mage China Sorrow!]] The most honest politician in the history of literature.
-->'''[[spoiler:China]]''' I hereby accept, [[BlatantLies with great reluctance and humility,]] the post of [[spoiler:Grand Mage]], and I swear to only use my newfound powers to protect the magical and mortal communities of Ireland, and [[BreadEggsMilkSquick possibly to extract small bits of personal vengeance against those who have wronged me in the past.]]

* It's a weird blend of funny, heartwarming, tearjerking and NightmareFuel [[spoiler:(seeing as China is ''on fire'' at the time)]], but the ShipSinking of [[spoiler:China/Skulduggery]] was rather dry.
-->'''[[spoiler:Skulduggery:]]''' I need you, [[spoiler:China.]]\\
'''[[spoiler:China:]]''' How I longed to hear those words...\\
'''[[spoiler:Skulduggery:]]''' [[spoiler: I need you to help me get Valkyrie back.]]\\
'''[[spoiler:China:]]''' [[SarcasmMode ...followed by those ones.]]

* China's deadpan reaction to hearing that [[spoiler: her AlternateUniverse counterpart had been killed by Serpine]]. "Typical".

* In ''The Dying of the Light'', Skulduggery comes up with a plan to [[spoiler: separate Valkyrie's personality from Darquesse's using Deacon Maybury's technique. In order for it to work, Valkyrie needs to hold onto her thoughts as best she can. When Cassandra tells her to use a word or phrase to latch onto, Valkyrie naturally chooses [[BrickJoke "The sparrow flies south for winter".]]]]

-->'''Valkyrie:''' Your little toys only work on me for a short time. We have a race of beings in my universe-we call them the [[Franchise/StarTrek Borg]]. They taught me everything they know about adapting to new weaponry. You cannot defeat me, [[spoiler:Mevolent]]. Resistance is futile.
* The exchange between Valkyrie and [[spoiler: the alternate Torment]]:

[[spoiler: '''Torment''']]: I don't know who this Gandalf is, but that is not why you disgust me, you insolent little - !
* [[spoiler:Ravel's death]] in ''The Dying of the Light''. What makes it funny is that it's told through conversation in a very offhand and flippant way rather than showing the actual scene itself.

* Valkyrie tells [[spoiler: Melancholia]] that there are aliens. Her reaction.

'''[[spoiler:Melancholia]]:''' ''REALLY''?\\

'''[[spoiler:Melancholia]]:''' I hate you so much.
* Scapegrace and Thrasher's final scene in ''Dying of the Light'': Thrasher gets [[spoiler:killed by the Guardian's blade, Scapegrace defeats the Guardian, they share a heartwarming final moment as Thrasher dies, and when he finally stops moving, Scapegrace pulls out the sword....and Thrasher says "Oh. I think that did it."]]
* Gracious O'Callahan describing his first girlfriend (who happened to be Donaghue's sister).

* Being corrupted seems to make [[spoiler:Skulduggery]] even more jovial than before. First, he declares himself leader of the anti-Sanctuary, and then he institutes a rule that they may only speak while holding his hat. Which is ignored.
-->'''[[spoiler:Skulduggery]]:''' I don't know what you're all finding so hard to grasp about the principle of the Speaking Hat.
* Cadaverous Gant and [[spoiler: a corrupted Skulduggery]] are attacked by a man with a giant scimitar. After almost getting sliced in half, Gant puts his foot down and decides to wait in the car until they're done, stopping the fight in its tracks.

'''[[spoiler:Skulduggery]]:''' Quiet you.

* [[spoiler: [[ImAHumanitarian Rosemary]] [[ToiletHumor "emptying herself"]] in order to eat Valkyrie.]]

* The shunter introducing himself as [[spoiler: [[Franchise/StarWars Luke Skywalker]].]]

** [[spoiler: [[TearJerker Too bad it doesn't work out like that.]]]]

* Onosa vomiting in Jericho's jar.

* When Militsa finally meets Fergus and Beryl.

* Skulduggery's attempts to manipulate [[{{Trumplica}} Martin Flannery]] into stopping his attacks on sorcerers. Suffice to say, it doesn't work and Flannery decides to go all [[VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance Senator Armstrong]] on the Skeleton Detective, ensuring that Cadaver Cain and Crepuscular Vies get their hands on Skulduggery's bones.
* Skulduggery in, as he grumpily terms it, "a meat-puppet" after losing his bones and having no choice but to possess a human body. Which means that he has physical impulses for the first time in several hundred years, and starts impulsively declaring several people from [[EverybodyLovesBlondes Tanith]] [[DudeMagnet Low]] (who finds it hilarious) to ''[[EnemyMine Nefarian Serpine]]'' (who is very confused), and then [[WorldsMostBeautifulWoman China]] (who finds it hilarious). Valkyrie analogises it as waking up to find that you're a HormoneAddledTeenager.