Tropescilloscope: All Just a Dream

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

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