Tropescilloscope: All Just a Dream

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

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Double-Meaning Title Sequel Hook Show Within a Show Bowdlerise All There in the Script Celebrity Paradox Not So Different Adaptational Attractiveness Kill It with Fire Framing Device In Name Only Badass Longcoat Unusual Euphemism Affectionate Parody Adaptational Badass Stepford Smiler Brick Joke Music Stories Punctuated! For! Emphasis! The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Rewatch Bonus Double Entendre Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Dark Action Girl What You Are in the Dark Those Wacky Nazis From Nobody to Nightmare Very Loosely Based on a True Story As Long as It Sounds Foreign The Stoic Vacation Films The '70s Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Failed a Spot Check Shirtless Scene Fire-Forged Friends The Starscream Hypocritical Humor Suspiciously Similar Substitute Laser-Guided Karma What Happened to the Mouse? Exactly What It Says on the Tin Department of Redundancy Department The End... Or Is It? Red Eyes, Take Warning Italian Films Not So Stoic Artistic License – Biology Irony Anti-Hero Author Appeal Obfuscating Stupidity After the End Shipper on Deck Monumental Damage Badass in a Nice Suit Big Damn Heroes Big Brother Instinct Face–Heel Turn Author Avatar The Mafia Eyepatch of Power Deadpan Snarker Made of Iron Historical In-Joke Demonic Possession Self-Deprecation Never Found the Body Dark Is Not Evil Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Gender Flip Hong Kong Films Determinator The Smurfette Principle Russian Films Action Prologue Precision F-Strike Broken Bird A Father to His Men Australian Movies Punch-Clock Villain Grey and Gray Morality For Want of a Nail Batman Gambit Eureka Moment Cool Old Lady Neck Snap The Cavalry Trailers Always Spoil Slasher Movie Wrong Genre Savvy Manic Pixie Dream Girl Animated Credits Opening Large Ham Creative Closing Credits Gorn Death by Irony Deliberate Values Dissonance Mad Scientist Mind Screw Nice Guy Dissonant Serenity Meaningful Name Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Our Zombies Are Different Improbable Weapon User Off with His Head! Reality Ensues Dual Wielding Made of Explodium Guile Hero Adaptation Dye-Job And the Adventure Continues Stylistic Suck Fingore I'm a Humanitarian Deconstruction Four-Temperament Ensemble N-Word Privileges Moment Killer Instant Death Bullet Brainless Beauty The Great Depression Improbable Aiming Skills Faking the Dead Expy Hero Antagonist Redshirt Army Karma Houdini The Alleged Car Smug Snake Sir Swears-a-Lot Jerk with a Heart of Gold Take That! Martial Arts Movie Older Than They Look Not What It Looks Like Breaking the Fourth Wall Needs Wiki Magic Love Pyrrhic Victory Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Conspicuous CG Sinister Minister Blackmail Small Name, Big Ego Loads and Loads of Characters Hair-Trigger Temper Pragmatic Villainy Amoral Attorney Crapsack World Man on Fire Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Overprotective Dad Knife Nut Establishing Character Moment Vomit Discretion Shot The Power of Love Reality Is Unrealistic My Beloved Smother Back from the Dead Recycled IN SPACE! Vitriolic Best Buds Mood Whiplash Killed Mid-Sentence In the Back Anachronic Order Title Drop Chekhov's Gun Does This Remind You of Anything? Antagonist Title Epic Movie Same Language Dub Naïve Newcomer The Faceless Alliterative Name Beard of Evil Malevolent Masked Men Evil-Detecting Dog All Just a Dream Lampshade Hanging Animal Motifs Suddenly SHOUTING! Works Set in World War II Paper-Thin Disguise Death of a Child German Films Flipping the Bird Gone Horribly Right Leitmotif Adults Are Useless The Sociopath Fatal Family Photo Science Fiction Films Dies Wide Open Off-into-the-Distance Ending Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Parental Abandonment Black Comedy Rape Cain and Abel Redemption Equals Death Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Parental Neglect Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Cluster F-Bomb Slashed Throat Gilligan Cut Pretty Little Headshots From Bad to Worse Comically Missing the Point Fantastic Racism Once More, with Clarity! Red Herring Expository Hairstyle Change Fanservice Extra Big Eater Would Hit a Girl Deus ex Machina Heel Realization French Films Ambiguous Ending Famous Last Words Scary Black Man No Antagonist Shown Their Work Foreshadowing Fantasy Films Our Vampires Are Different Improvised Weapon Destination Defenestration Outrun the Fireball Bury Your Gays Your Head A-Splode Evil Is Hammy NO INDOOR VOICE Artistic License – Geography Arc Words Visual Pun Babies Ever After Fake Shemp Bilingual Bonus The Musical Death Glare Evil Brit Big Bad Duumvirate Evil vs. Evil Did Not Get the Girl This Is Gonna Suck Put on a Bus All There in the Manual Evil Laugh Together in Death Match Cut Greater-Scope Villain Dressing as the Enemy Cloudcuckoolander Whole Plot Reference Dirty Coward Woman Scorned Vampire Fiction Anachronism Stew Hell Is That Noise Creepy Child Black and Gray Morality Disguised in Drag The Dreaded Covers Always Lie Disney Villain Death I Have Your Wife Hollywood Darkness Happily Married The Dragon Adaptation Name Change One Steve Limit Black Comedy All Men Are Perverts Wham Line Important Haircut The Stoner Chiaroscuro Military and Warfare Films Mr. Exposition Red Shirt Deliberately Monochrome Pragmatic Adaptation Christmas Movies Index Jitter Cam Spiteful Spit He Knows Too Much Bolivian Army Ending Race Lift Didn't Think This Through Hooker with a Heart of Gold Bald of Evil Funny Foreigner Parental Incest Jerkass Mistaken for Gay Beware the Nice Ones Artistic License – Military The Bad Guy Wins Country Matters Femme Fatale The Hero Dies Ship Tease Mexican Standoff Sacrificial Lion Berserk Button The Lost Lenore Combat Pragmatist Domestic Abuse The Oner Daylight Horror I Want My Beloved to Be Happy No OSHA Compliance Central Theme Blood from the Mouth Faux Affably Evil Male Frontal Nudity Punny Name Agony of the Feet Adorkable Shout-Out Genre Shift Have a Gay Old Time Apocalypse How Worthy Opponent You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! 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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Brother–Sister Incest And I Must Scream Up to Eleven Nothing Is Scarier Darkest Hour Rousing Speech Idiot Ball Costume Porn Half the Man He Used to Be In Medias Res Dramatic Gun Cock Parental Substitute Closed Circle Product Placement Big Applesauce The Casanova Coming-of-Age Story Dogged Nice Guy timeperiod The Lancer Tranquil Fury Animal Title Index Gold Digger Protagonist Title Cat Scare Card-Carrying Villain "Well Done, Son!" Guy Plucky Comic Relief Rule of Symbolism Roaring Rampage of Revenge Kill 'em All '80s Hair 20 Minutes into the Future Plot Hole Properly Paranoid Soft Glass La Résistance Race Against the Clock Here We Go Again! The Vamp Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! 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Is Serious Business Meet Cute The Mole Cool Old Guy Love at First Sight As You Know Undying Loyalty Even Evil Has Loved Ones Obstructive Bureaucrat Aside Glance She Cleans Up Nicely Creator Cameo Fourth Date Marriage Ms. Fanservice Lock and Load Montage Truth in Television Well-Intentioned Extremist Running Gag Hope Spot Intrepid Reporter Bavarian Fire Drill Kick the Son of a Bitch Empathic Environment Meaningful Echo Canadian Movies Men Are the Expendable Gender Pretty in Mink Ungrateful Bastard Slap-Slap-Kiss Bullying a Dragon Wham Shot Bond One-Liner Due to the Dead Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Silence Is Golden Facial Horror Captain Obvious Pay Evil unto Evil Canon Foreigner Ambiguously Gay He Who Fights Monsters Dull Surprise Bare Your Midriff Eiffel Tower Effect Aluminum Christmas Trees Action Genre Big "NO!" Even Evil Has Standards Captain Ersatz It Will Never Catch On A.I. Is a Crapshoot Reasonable Authority Figure Heterosexual Life-Partners Casting Gag Mundane Made Awesome Television Movie Index The '90s Adaptation Expansion Mystery and Detective Films My God, What Have I Done? Freudian Excuse Eagleland folderlabel Despair Event Horizon Line-of-Sight Name Sanity Slippage Totally Radical Informed Ability Sadistic Choice Word of God Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Disproportionate Retribution Get Out! 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