Tropescilloscope: All Just a Dream

Framing device where the story was just a dream. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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More Tropes Apocalypse How Retirony Major Injury Underreaction Adorkable Jitter Cam Off-into-the-Distance Ending Alas, Poor Villain Actor Allusion No OSHA Compliance Comically Missing the Point Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Deliberate Values Dissonance Black and Gray Morality Blood from the Mouth folderlabel Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Obfuscating Stupidity Rape as Drama Framing Device Big Brother Instinct Meaningful Background Event The Smart Guy The Bully Artistic License – Gun Safety Eyepatch of Power A Father to His Men Taking the Bullet Red Right Hand No Name Given Reasonable Authority Figure Manly Tears Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Anguished Declaration of Love Adaptation Distillation Hero of Another Story Serial Killer Shirtless Scene Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Bar Brawl Reality Ensues Police Brutality Jerk with a Heart of Gold Unusual Euphemism Sexy Discretion Shot Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Antagonist Title Kill 'em All La Résistance Bland-Name Product Henpecked Husband An Axe to Grind Dressing as the Enemy Yandere Gratuitous English Suspiciously Specific Denial Creative Closing Credits Woman in White The Cavalry Precision F-Strike Police are Useless As Long as It Sounds Foreign Shell-Shocked Veteran Have a Gay Old Time Bad "Bad Acting" Heroic Sacrifice Daddy's Girl Big-Bad Ensemble An Arm and a Leg Villain Song Blackmail Killed Mid-Sentence Offscreen Moment of Awesome Stepford Smiler Psychological Thriller Karmic Death Rousing Speech Monumental Damage Offscreen Teleportation Film Noir Epic Movie Show Within a Show Groin Attack Drugs Are Bad Everyone Has Standards Kill It with Fire Rule of Cool Ship Tease Body Horror Big "NO!" Silence Is Golden Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" The '60s Artistic License – Military Storming the Castle Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Does This Remind You of Anything? Ascended Extra He Knows Too Much Dramatic Irony Daylight Horror Sci-Fi Horror An Aesop I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Ass Shove Early-Bird Cameo No-Sell Dark and Troubled Past Obstructive Bureaucrat Historical Villain Upgrade I Need a Freaking Drink Posthumous Character Evil vs. Evil Animated Credits Opening Bald of Evil Eye Scream Too Dumb to Live Brick Joke Christmas Movies Index Downer Ending Rule of Three Disguised in Drag May–December Romance Australian Movies Retcon Crazy Jealous Guy Pay Evil unto Evil The Chessmaster Damsel in Distress Fatal Flaw Nice Guy Villainous Breakdown Suddenly SHOUTING! Unresolved Sexual Tension Sequel Escalation Chiaroscuro Irony Mystery and Detective Films Redemption Equals Death Green-Eyed Monster Real Life Toplessness from the Back Dumb Blonde Not Using the "Z" Word Big Applesauce Epic Fail Hope Spot Never Found the Body Neck Lift Stuff Blowing Up Diabolus ex Machina Your Cheating Heart Novelization Older Than They Look Bait-and-Switch Guile Hero Get Out! Villain Opening Scene Immune to Bullets Hollywood Law Abhorrent Admirer Closed Circle Blood Knight Mythology Gag Parental Incest Jerkass Properly Paranoid Continuity Nod Bond One-Liner Adaptational Villainy The Reveal Danny Peary Cult Movies List Bilingual Bonus Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Wham Line For Want of a Nail Star-Crossed Lovers Accidental Misnaming Not So Above It All Affectionate Parody Japanese Films Overprotective Dad Works Set in World War II Zombie Stories Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Face Death with Dignity Loophole Abuse Distracted by the Sexy Overly Long Gag Driven to Suicide Cowboy Cop All There in the Manual Beard of Evil Jump Scare Word of God Extremely Short Timespan Batman Gambit Anti-Hero There Is No Kill Like Overkill Big Bad Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Amoral Attorney Sole Survivor Bring My Brown Pants Bloody Hilarious Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Only Known by Their Nickname Cat Scare Re-Cut Even Evil Has Loved Ones Scenery Gorn The Great Depression Genre Savvy One-Man Army The Cameo Rasputinian Death Stock Footage Break the Cutie Made of Explodium Advertised Extra Throwing Your Sword Always Works Fanservice Extra Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Badass Boast "Shaggy Dog" Story Laser-Guided Karma Cold-Blooded Torture Married to the Job A.I. Is a Crapshoot Evil Counterpart Break the Haughty Naïve Newcomer The Chick Those Two Bad Guys My Beloved Smother Screw This, I'm Outta Here! BFG Dark Reprise Unwitting Instigator of Doom Enemy Mine Psychopathic Manchild Anyone Can Die Bittersweet Ending Mercy Kill This Is Gonna Suck Same Language Dub Casting Gag Ambiguous Disorder Those Wacky Nazis Badass Normal Grey and Gray Morality In the Back Drill Sergeant Nasty Sequel Hook Car Fu Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Central Theme It's All About Me Bad Boss Documentary Rule of Funny Taking You with Me She's Got Legs Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Hypocrite The Sociopath Historical Hero Upgrade Fainting Science Fiction Films Establishing Character Moment Empathic Environment Age Lift Victoria's Secret Compartment Only in It for the Money Country Matters Wham Shot Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! The Starscream The Film of the Book Sinister Minister And I Must Scream Catch-Phrase You Killed My Father Coming-of-Age Story Parental Substitute The Un-Reveal Moment Killer Peek-a-Boo Corpse As the Good Book Says... Exact Words Not Quite Dead Trailers Always Spoil Military and Warfare Films Double Entendre Hate Sink Camp Gay Manic Pixie Dream Girl Whole Plot Reference Guns Akimbo Index of Film Westerns Mama Bear Getting Crap Past the Radar You Have Failed Me Would Hurt a Child Unusually Uninteresting Sight Crazy-Prepared Bury Your Gays Tagline Shoot the Shaggy Dog Eiffel Tower Effect What the Hell, Hero? The Ace Needs Wiki Magic Love What Happened to the Mouse? The Ditz Big Bad Duumvirate Despair Event Horizon Adaptational Attractiveness Manchild Take That! Wounded Gazelle Gambit British Films Actually Pretty Funny Plucky Comic Relief Happily Married Foregone Conclusion Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience More Dakka Ghost Fiction Cool Old Guy I'm a Humanitarian Curb-Stomp Battle Truth in Television Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Those Two Guys Idiot Ball The X of Y Film Noir Index Calling the Old Man Out Took a Level in Badass Beta Couple Put on a Bus Evil-Detecting Dog Really Gets Around Pragmatic Villainy Fake Shemp Corpsing Dark Action Girl Superhero Off with His Head! Brother–Sister Incest Action Prologue Dirty Coward Due to the Dead Plot Hole Narrator Nice Hat Thriller Based on a True Story Leitmotif Cloudcuckoolander Fish out of Water Bond Villain Stupidity Vacation Films Film Series It's Personal Abusive Parents Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Title Drop Market-Based Title Mad Scientist Badass in a Nice Suit Cluster F-Bomb Boom, Headshot! And Starring Berserk Button Red Shirt Brutal Honesty Time Skip The '90s Gory Discretion Shot Belligerent Sexual Tension Unspoken Plan Guarantee Bottomless Magazines Noodle Incident Corrupt Corporate Executive Intergenerational Friendship Fan Disservice Psycho for Hire Badass Grandpa Worthy Opponent Madness Mantra Extreme Doormat MacGuffin Spiteful Spit I Did What I Had to Do Action Girl Death by Sex Soft Glass My God, What Have I Done? The End... Or Is It? All There in the Script Here We Go Again! Department of Redundancy Department Double-Meaning Title Pretty Little Headshots NO INDOOR VOICE Stylistic Suck The Alcoholic Large Ham Five-Man Band Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Beauty Is Never Tarnished Cool Old Lady Amusing Injuries Famous Last Words All Just a Dream Heel Realization Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Armor-Piercing Question Martial Arts Movie Captain Ersatz Foil Canon Foreigner Serious Business Television Movie Index Broken Aesop Instant Death Bullet Very Loosely Based on a True Story Annoying Younger Sibling Big Eater The Atoner Improbable Weapon User Visual Pun Kick the Dog Naked People Are Funny Scary Black Man Deal with the Devil Gilligan Cut Action Genre Male Gaze Sacrificial Lion Romantic False Lead Contrived Coincidence Call-Forward Gorn The Dragon Crucified Hero Shot Shut Up, Hannibal! You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Arch-Enemy Deliberately Monochrome Nothing Is Scarier Sadistic Choice Adaptation Name Change Composite Character Love at First Sight "Awesome McCool" Name Stealth Hi/Bye Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Black Dude Dies First Chewing the Scenery Anti-Villain A Date with Rosie Palms Betty and Veronica Face–Heel Turn Heroic BSoD Parental Abandonment Death by Irony Let's Get Dangerous! Race Against the Clock Recycled IN SPACE! Never Trust a Trailer Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Shipper on Deck Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Dramedy Villain Ball Broken Pedestal The Lancer She Cleans Up Nicely The Voiceless Breaking the Fourth Wall Agony of the Feet Mexican Standoff Flashback Improvised Weapon Poor Communication Kills Honor Before Reason Broken Bird Aluminum Christmas Trees "Well Done, Son!" Guy Didn't Think This Through Manipulative Bastard Red Oni, Blue Oni Pimped-Out Dress Fate Worse than Death Interrupted Suicide Spiritual Successor Bloodier and Gorier Dirty Old Man The Dreaded All for Nothing Spanner in the Works Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Adaptation Dye-Job Shower Scene Hypocritical Humor Historical-Domain Character Badass Bookworm Slap-Slap-Kiss Ungrateful Bastard Undying Loyalty Riddle for the Ages Beware the Nice Ones Only One Name Demonic Possession The '70s Say My Name Screw the Rules, I Have Money! All Girls Want Bad Boys Evil Brit The Power of Love Stalker with a Crush Adapted Out In Name Only Evil Is Petty Mundane Made Awesome Rich Bitch Fatal Family Photo Sir Swears-a-Lot Vomit Discretion Shot Retired Badass It Will Never Catch On Funny Background Event Eureka Moment Papa Wolf Heroes Want Redheads Small Name, Big Ego Awesome, but Impractical Alliterative Name Public Domain Feature Films Horror Comedy Genre Throwback Video Credits Adults Are Useless Children Are Innocent Fantastic Racism Gone Horribly Right Hooker with a Heart of Gold Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Well-Intentioned Extremist Homage The Mole Ironic Echo Death Seeker Pretty in Mink Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas The '80s Award-Bait Song Adaptation Expansion Punny Name Mighty Whitey Pyrrhic Victory Spared by the Adaptation Artistic License – History Karma Houdini The Casanova Evil Laugh Insane Troll Logic Romantic Comedy The Hero Dies Covers Always Lie Took a Level in Jerkass Expository Hairstyle Change Good Is Not Nice Faking the Dead Gainax Ending One-Word Title Author Appeal Early Installment Weirdness After the End Black Best Friend The Big Guy Greater-Scope Villain Foreshadowing Dark Is Not Evil Celebrity Paradox Wrong Genre Savvy Men Are the Expendable Gender The '50s Artistic License – Geography Grievous Bottley Harm Hair-Trigger Temper Rated M for Manly The Place Fourth Date Marriage Bunny-Ears Lawyer Not So Stoic O.O.C. Is Serious Business Leaning on the Fourth Wall Animal Title Index Almost Kiss Make It Look Like an Accident Take a Third Option Fiery Redhead Slashed Throat It Can Think Motor Mouth Exactly What It Says on the Tin Dogged Nice Guy You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Dramatic Gun Cock Dies Wide Open And the Adventure Continues Training Montage Combat Pragmatist Unreliable Narrator Hell Is That Noise Rewatch Bonus Politically Incorrect Villain No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Translation Convention Mind Screw Air-Vent Passageway Faux Affably Evil Evil Sounds Deep Black Comedy Rape Femme Fatale Cat Fight Light Is Not Good The Smurfette Principle Hidden Depths Slasher Smile Laughing Mad Butt-Monkey Revenge Oh, Crap! A Minor Kidroduction Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Vitriolic Best Buds Does Not Like Shoes Self-Deprecation Blatant Lies Ambiguous Ending Vomit Indiscretion Shot Slasher Movie Curse Cut Short Not So Different Depraved Bisexual timeperiod The Faceless Silent Movie Affably Evil Dull Surprise Implacable Man Scenery Porn Humiliation Conga Playing Gertrude Vampire Fiction Death Glare Bare Your Midriff Becoming the Mask Gender Flip Improbable Aiming Skills Brainless Beauty Chase Scene Did Not Get the Girl Anachronic Order Freudian Excuse B-Movie Wretched Hive Crapsack World Tranquil Fury Big Fancy House Friend to All Children Russian Films Refuge in Audacity Developing Doomed Characters Canadian Movies No Ending Dissonant Serenity Better to Die than Be Killed The Musical Last-Name Basis Every Car Is a Pinto Dying Moment of Awesome Even Evil Has Standards From Nobody to Nightmare He Who Fights Monsters Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Our Vampires Are Different Suspiciously Similar Substitute Skewed Priorities Babies Ever After Wicked Cultured Roaring Rampage of Revenge Shown Their Work Eldritch Abomination Evil Is Hammy Adaptational Badass Leave the Camera Running Meet Cute Lampshade Hanging Bullying a Dragon Token Minority Drowning My Sorrows Hero Antagonist Mr. Fanservice Creepy Child Punch-Clock Villain Disproportionate Retribution Be Careful What You Wish For Insistent Terminology Cool Shades World of Ham Bloodless Carnage Facial Horror Villain Protagonist Ax-Crazy Heel–Face Turn Malevolent Masked Men Chekhov's Gunman Morality Pet Straight Gay Sports Stories Ambiguously Gay Darkest Hour Fantasy Films Insult Backfire Jerk Jock Kubrick Stare The Quiet One For the Evulz Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Adaptational Heroism Cassandra Truth Reality Is Unrealistic Flipping the Bird Pragmatic Adaptation Stealth Pun The Stinger Accidental Murder Product Placement Attempted Rape Bowdlerise The Lost Lenore Mooks Meaningful Echo Mood Whiplash French Films Domestic Abuse All Men Are Perverts Obviously Evil Super Strength Reckless Gun Usage Room Full of Crazy Your Head A-Splode Names to Run Away from Really Fast The Stoner Evil Plan Informed Ability Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Artistic License – Law Disney Villain Death Demoted to Extra What You Are in the Dark Aside Glance Pet the Dog Missing Mom Arc Words Defrosting Ice Queen Pre-Mortem One-Liner Call-Back Redshirt Army Red Herring Italian Films Fat Bastard Creator Cameo Rule of Symbolism Deconstruction Determinator aka: The Determinator Imagine Spot Music Stories Running Gag Sassy Black Woman Half the Man He Used to Be I Have Your Wife Non-Indicative Name Deus ex Machina Once More, with Clarity! Red Eyes, Take Warning Cruel and Unusual Death The Mafia From Bad to Worse Death by Adaptation Eagleland Arranged Marriage Totally Radical Camera Abuse Darker and Edgier I Just Shot Marvin in the Face The Hero Adult Fear Never My Fault As Himself The Oner Heterosexual Life-Partners No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Reality Has No Subtitles Fingore Man on Fire Disney Death Not What It Looks Like The Ghost Cain and Abel Knight Templar Anachronism Stew Back from the Dead Determinator Fanservice Outrun the Fireball The Dog Bites Back Sealed Evil in a Can Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Failed a Spot Check The Bad Guy Wins Only Sane Man N-Word Privileges Kids Are Cruel Smoking Is Cool Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Lock and Load Montage The Remake Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Only a Flesh Wound Left the Background Music On In Medias Res The Stoic Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique The Alleged Car Dual Wielding Twist Ending Paper-Thin Disguise Dutch Angle Historical In-Joke Important Haircut The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Expy Intrepid Reporter Setting Update Book-Ends Our Zombies Are Different Smug Snake Ms. Fanservice Neck Snap Death of a Child Author Avatar Spell My Name with an "S" Hoist by His Own Petard "The Reason You Suck" Speech Freeze-Frame Bonus Random Events Plot German Films One Steve Limit Decoy Protagonist Auto Erotica Horror Films Destination Defenestration Would Hit a Girl Humans Are Bastards True Companions Mistaken for Gay Genre Shift Card-Carrying Villain Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Disappeared Dad Hong Kong Films Knife Nut Cool Car Cool Guns Ragtag Bunch of Misfits War Is Hell Frame-Up Bavarian Fire Drill Mugging the Monster Authority Equals Asskicking Jerkass Has a Point Race Lift Bound and Gagged Chekhov's Skill Catapult Nightmare Tempting Fate Hollywood Darkness Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Together in Death Chekhov's Gun The Brute Alpha Bitch Mr. Exposition Bolivian Army Ending No Celebrities Were Harmed Final Girl Black Comedy Big Damn Heroes Badass Longcoat Ripped from the Headlines Kick the Son of a Bitch Asshole Victim Character Development Dwindling Party The Load As You Know Bi the Way Soundtrack Dissonance Artistic License – Biology Dropped a Bridge on Him Male Frontal Nudity Villain with Good Publicity Fire-Forged Friends Logo Joke Deadpan Snarker Drives Like Crazy Defiant to the End Scare Chord Dirty Cop Sanity Slippage "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue '80s Hair Easily Forgiven Real Life Writes the Plot Credits Gag Lighter and Softer Parental Neglect Handicapped Badass Artistic License – Physics Match Cut Captain Obvious Shout-Out Protagonist Title My Greatest Failure A God Am I 20 Minutes into the Future Maybe Ever After Action Survivor Line-of-Sight Name Funny Foreigner Tap on the Head Made of Iron Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Four-Temperament Ensemble Fun with Acronyms Loads and Loads of Characters Costume Porn Animal Motifs The Vamp Woman Scorned No Antagonist Ominous Latin Chanting Meaningful Name Gold Digger Up to Eleven Biopic Earn Your Happy Ending Not Even Bothering with the Accent How We Got Here Love Triangle Conspicuous CG