Tropescilloscope: All Just a Dream

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

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