Parodies, also called spoofs, imitate the mannerisms, style or appearance of a work in a silly way for comic effect.
Of course, there's more than "pun" type of comedy...
See also Meta Trope Intro for a comparison with many other ways that a trope can be used.
Tropes
- The Abridged History: Parodying and shortening real-life History.
- The Abridged Series: A Gag Dub where a work is abbreviated and alters character personalities and plot points to make the story funnier.
- Adam Westing: A celebrity plays a parody of themselves.
- Affectionate Parody: It's clear that the people behind the parody are fans of the work being parodied and that the spoof is being made out of love rather than malice.
- The Ahnold: Affectionate Parody of 80's Action heroes.
- Anime Opening Parody: When a work parodies or imitates typical anime openings.
- Anti-Love Song: A love song parody, often one that instead describes the singer's animosity towards the person they're singing about.
- Batman Parody: A parody of DC Comics superhero Batman.
- Blaxploitation Parody: A parody of blaxploitation films.
- Clickbait Gag: Making fun of online clickbait articles.
- Dark Parody: A darkly humorous parody which is far more disturbing than the source material that it's spoofing.
- Deconstructive Parody: The parody takes the tropes, plot devices, and character traits of the work being spoofed, and either depicts them realistically or exaggerates them to ludicrous levels.
- Denied Parody: It seems like a parody, but the creators insist it is not.
- Depraved Kids' Show Host: A kids' show host who secretly or blatantly has no place in children's programming.
- Derailed Fairy Tale
- Disney Owns This Trope
- Equal-Opportunity Offender: A comedian whose jokes take the piss out of everyone.
- Fan Music
- Filk Song
- Fourth-Wall Portrait
- Fractured Fairy Tale
- Gag Dub: Dubbing over a work with different dialogue and audio to make it sound funnier.
- Gag Sub: A work with dialogue in another language is given fake subtitles to create a funnier mistranslation.
- #HashtagForLaughs
- Homage Derailment
- Indecisive Parody
- Kitschy Local Commercial: Local commercials that are deliberately of poor quality.
- Le Film Artistique: parody of art films, especially French ones.
- May the Farce Be with You: A parody of Star Wars.
- Mock Headroom: Parodies of Max Headroom.
- Narrow Parody: Spoofing a work that is fairly recent.
- News Parody
- Official Parody
- One-Joke Fake Show: A Show Within a Show parody of popular television boiled down to one gag.
- Parallel Porn Titles: A porn parody of a non-pornographic work.
- Parodied Trope: A specific trope or cliche gets humorously spoofed to the point of absurdity.
- Parody Assistance: People involved with the work being parodied help in making the parody.
- Parody Commercial: A comedy sketch consisting of a commercial for a fictional product.
- Parody Displacement: The parody becomes more well-known than the work being parodied.
- Parody Episode
- Parody Magic Spell
- Parody Names
- Parody Product Placement: A parody of the Hostess Fruit Pies comic book ads where the heroes either stopped villains from stealing Hostess products or used Hostess products to defeat the villain.
- Parody Religion
- Parody Retcon: The creators claim a work to be a parody after the fact in an attempt to deflect criticisms.
- Parody Sue
- Parody Video Games
- Peter Pan Parody
- Poe's Law: When it becomes hard to tell if the person is being facetious or if they're actually being serious.
- Pompous Political Pundit (frequent use as a Fox News Channel satire/parody)
- Postmodernism
- Raiders of the Lost Parody
- Real Trailer, Fake Movie: A movie trailer parody consisting of a trailer for a movie that doesn't exist.
- The Real Spoofbusters: A Ghostbusters parody.
- Redundant Parody: The parody makes fun of something about the work being parodied that was already poked fun at by the work in question.
- Satire/Parody/Pastiche
- Satire and Switch
- Self-Parody: A work which spoofs itself (like an episode of a TV show that makes fun of its own tropes and clichés, or an artist making fun of one of his pervious works).
- Shallow Parody: A parody, often a mean-spirited one, that isn't really an accurate portrayal of the work being spoofed.
- Sitcom Homage Episode
- Soap Within a Show: A spoof of soap operas.
- Soap Opera Organ Score: A tremolo electric organ announces a Soap Within a Show parody or other soap-opera-like, comically melodramatic situation.
- Song Parody: A parody of a song.
- Spoof Aesop: Poking fun at the morals and lessons some works tend to have at the end.
- Spoofed the Ironic Film Seriously: Parodying a work that was already comedic or satirical as if the original work was actually serious.
- Spoofed with Their Own Words: The parody copies actual dialogue from the work being spoofed word for word just to show how ridiculous it sounded in its original context.
- Spoofing Spoofiness: A parody of a parody.
- Spider-Man Send-Up
- Stealth Parody: A parody is made to be taken seriously by the people it is making fun of.
- Stylistic Self-Parody: A work pokes fun at its own art style and character designs.
- Subverted Kids' Show: A parody of a work of children's media that is loaded with lots of content that really isn't appropriate for kids.
- Subverted Sitcom: A parody of a classic sitcom that deconstructs and plays the familiar sitcom tropes for horror.
- Suspiciously Similar Song: A song or piece of music that sounds like a copyright-friendly imitation of another song or piece of music.
- Trailer Spoof
- Where No Parody Has Gone Before: A parody of Star Trek.
- Weird Crossover: A (parodic) crossover in which humor is derived from the juxtaposition of two vastly different works of fiction.
- Wildlife Commentary Spoof
