Tropescilloscope: All Just a Dream

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

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