Tropescilloscope: All Just a Dream

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

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