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