Tropescilloscope: All Just a Dream

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

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