History Main / RuleOfFunny

* WebVideo/{{Kitboga}} is a scambaiter popular on Website/{{Twitch}} and Website/YouTube. A common practice in scamming is for the scammer to pretend to have transferred money to the intended victim and then ask them to go buy gift cards to replace the "excess money" that was transferred. To this end, Kit has set up a fake Google Play store on his virtual machine, which he then uses to pretend to redeem the gift cards, having his characters claim to believe that by doing this they are giving the scammer the money. Kit has admitted that especially when it comes to some of his characters who surely aren't as feeble-minded as [[ScatterbrainedSenior Granny Edna]], the fake gift card redeem becomes less believable because there's no clear reason why his character shoud reasonably think that redeeming the gift cards on their own account is how the scammer could possibly get money. He still does it anyway because, of course, it's hilarious and it also infuriates the scammers in a way nothing else quite can.

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* [[Characters/TheUnbeatableSquirrelGirl Squirrel Girl]] breathes this trope. How else can you explain how a girl with a tail who has the power to [[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway talk to squirrels]], can defeat super villains like [[Characters/MarvelComicsThanos Thanos]] (MagnificentBastard), [[Characters/MarvelComicsDoctorDoom Doctor Doom]] (CrazyPrepared Personified) and Characters/{{Deadpool|WadeWilson}} (Deadpool)?
* Me, the [[ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} Merc with the Mouth]], would have to say that I'm, myself, pretty much the incarnation of this trope. I mean, I never stop talking even when I'm getting beaten to a pulp, and most of the stuff I say goes straight into the SugarWiki/FunnyMoments section... Also, mention that [[SymbolSwearing percent sign, skull, colon, ampersand, swirly thingy, dollar sign, semicolon]] Squirrel Girl again, and I'll make rabbit leg roti, wrapped in dragonnade with cherry and carrot puree out of you! Either that or curry with rice.

* A [[{{Pun}} running]] sight gag in ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'' is Sakaki, after winning a race, running with the ribbon held up by her (for a Japanese teenager) extremely large breasts. Of course, this means that the ribbon was chest-level on the tallest girl, putting it high enough that some of the contestants would have run right ''under'' it...but it's still funny.

%%* Creator/SeltzerAndFriedberg aim for this trope... with unfortunate results.

-->Both reached into the magical space all anime characters have, extracting black notebooks—Japan's having unidentifiable symbols on its cover as Italy's had 'Death Note' clearly printed on it in gothic letters—before taking out pens and colored pencils as well, opening the pages before scrawling in them.

* ''VideoGame/{{Atelier}}'' games are lighthearted in general, but the ''[[VideoGame/ManaKhemiaAlchemistsOfAlRevis Mana]] [[VideoGame/ManaKhemia2FallOfAlchemy Khemia]]'' and DS games (''Liese'', ''[[VideoGame/AtelierAnnieAlchemistsOfSeraIsland Annie]]'', and ''Lina'') are practically made of this trope.

* The scene in ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' where the Autobots hide in Sam's backyard doesn't make that much sense - why wouldn't Sam's parents hear them speaking? - but it's so damn funny it barely matters.

** Enforced by Creator/EiichiroOda when Luffy unlocks Gear 5: As he felt the series had gotten uncomfortably close to hitting CerberusSyndrome, with both the plot and Luffy's power-ups getting more serious as the series went on, he did the ultimate swerve by having Luffy's final power-up be to go from RubberMan to [[ToonPhysics Rubberhose Man]], drawing inspiration from cartoons like ''Franchise/TomAndJerry'' to make the most ridiculous yet most powerful power-up ever seen in the series.

* In one scene in ''Manga/SoulHunter'', Taikobou and Supuushan are struck by a lightning bolt, taikobou's hair ends up in a carbonized FunnyAfro, Supuushan's ends up with perfectly styled RegalRinglets, for no reason.

* ''[[ComicBook/{{Nextwave}} Nextwave: Agents of H.A.T.E.]]'' runs on this. It starts with the team fighting a giant green dragon in underpants and proceeds to get unashamedly weirder without so much as stopping for breath -- [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs except to huff more laughing gas]]. To wit, Dirk Anger, director of H.A.T.E., (a ComicBook/NickFury {{expy}}) spends the entire series a) trying to kill Nextwave by, say, throwing Drop Bears at them from his flying submarine base, and b) concocting more elaborate suicide attempts due to the [[VillainousBreakdown breakdown]] the Nextwave squad are giving him.

* %% Music/{{Megadeth}} has The Chosen Ones, based on ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'''s Rabbit of Caerbannog.

* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs

* ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic'' has a similar case to ''Dragon Ball'', where the series is a combination of deadly serious HumongousMecha action and zany RomCom with the realism level zig-zagging as the plot demands. Comedy episodes use AmusingInjuries even for things like explosives, but serious episodes feature realistic life-or-death battles between soldiers and terrorists. For example, the protagonist Sosuke [[ItMakesSenseInContext gets hit in the head by second base]] in a gag episode and is just knocked out for a few minutes, but in a more serious battle later on in the story [[spoiler:he gets shot in the gut, losing a portion of his liver and almost bleeding to death]].

-->'''Patrick:''' Hey, if we're underwater, how can there be a fi--''(fire goes out)''

'''Tropes existing purely due to the Rule of Funny:'''

** In "Skiddley Whiffers", when Doofenshmirtz explains to Perry why he's trying to [[OverprotectiveDad protect Vanessa]] on her camping trip, we're treated to another flashback from his HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood where he gets [[ScaryStingingSwarm attacked by bees]], which leads to him falling off a cliff, through a patch of thorn bushes, and through a field of fire hydrants. He then shows Perry that he has a hydrant stuck inside his leg (he can't have it removed because it's too close to an artery), which appears out of nowhere and disappears just as quickly.