Tropescilloscope: All Just a Dream

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

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Killed Mid-Sentence Not Quite Dead Silent Movie Novelization Captain Ersatz Vomit Indiscretion Shot I Did What I Had to Do Token Minority Pre-Mortem One-Liner My Greatest Failure Adaptational Villainy Shoot the Shaggy Dog Extremely Short Timespan The Smurfette Principle Alpha Bitch Spiteful Spit Shout-Out Foregone Conclusion One-Word Title Big Fancy House Pretty Little Headshots "Well Done, Son!" Guy Whole Plot Reference Made of Explodium Roaring Rampage of Revenge Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Does This Remind You of Anything? Wounded Gazelle Gambit The Lost Lenore Creepy Child Reasonable Authority Figure Determinator aka: The Determinator Insistent Terminology Artistic License – Geography Zombie Stories Costume Porn Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Sassy Black Woman Hoist by His Own Petard Manly Tears This Is Gonna Suck Adaptation Dye-Job Children Are Innocent Homage Black Best Friend For Want of a Nail Super Strength Eiffel Tower Effect Deal with the Devil Getting Crap Past the Radar The X of Y Face Death with Dignity Adaptational Heroism Closed Circle Blood Knight Mexican Standoff Music Stories Vacation Films Scary Black Man Scenery Porn Brainless Beauty My Beloved Smother Our Vampires Are Different Would Hurt a Child Film Noir Index The Quiet One I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Villainous Breakdown Chewing the Scenery Revenge Biopic Toplessness from the Back No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Television Movie Index I'm a Humanitarian Affectionate Parody The '60s 20 Minutes into the Future Combat Pragmatist Broken Aesop No Antagonist Overprotective Dad Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Mundane Made Awesome Rule of Funny Bald of Evil Genre Throwback Rasputinian Death Adorkable Male Gaze Drives Like Crazy The Dragon Anyone Can Die The Ghost I Need a Freaking Drink Crapsack World Unwitting Instigator of Doom Author Appeal Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Humiliation Conga Lock and Load Montage Informed Ability Cassandra Truth Sacrificial Lion No Celebrities Were Harmed Fantastic Racism Call-Forward Adaptation Expansion Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Take That! Unspoken Plan Guarantee Dirty Cop Depraved Bisexual Grey and Gray Morality Sole Survivor All There in the Script Double Entendre Destination Defenestration The Musical Paper-Thin Disguise Arc Words "Awesome McCool" Name Awesome, but Impractical Nothing Is Scarier Meaningful Background Event Aluminum Christmas Trees Say My Name Film Noir The Stoic Deus ex Machina I Just Shot Marvin in the Face N-Word Privileges Beta Couple Kick the Dog Line-of-Sight Name Australian Movies Camp Gay Works Set in World War II Not So Stoic Cowboy Cop Insult Backfire Historical Villain Upgrade Deconstruction Older Than They Look Celebrity Paradox Empathic Environment Gainax Ending Together in Death Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Adults Are Useless Big Applesauce A.I. Is a Crapshoot MacGuffin Epic Movie It's Personal Pet the Dog Jump Scare Red Right Hand Interrupted Suicide Evil Is Petty Suspiciously Specific Denial Properly Paranoid Suspiciously Similar Substitute Cool Old Lady Immune to Bullets Anguished Declaration of Love Jerkass Aside Glance Bond Villain Stupidity Flashback Face–Heel Turn Star-Crossed Lovers Hollywood Law An Aesop Villain Opening Scene Fat Bastard Drowning My Sorrows No Ending Let's Get Dangerous! Those Two Guys Martial Arts Movie Rule of Symbolism Animated Credits Opening Gorn From Bad to Worse Fanservice Extra Everyone Has Standards Outrun the Fireball Faking the Dead Pragmatic Villainy Leaning on the Fourth Wall Bring My Brown Pants The Stinger Sequel Escalation The Un-Reveal Fish out of Water Get Out! Covers Always Lie Real Life Writes the Plot Corrupt Corporate Executive Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! 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Chekhov's Skill Back from the Dead "The Reason You Suck" Speech Throwing Your Sword Always Works Anachronic Order Dark Is Not Evil Black and Gray Morality The Ace Rule of Cool Documentary Cat Fight Eyepatch of Power Fanservice Naked People Are Funny Ominous Latin Chanting It's All About Me Peek-a-Boo Corpse Time Skip Exactly What It Says on the Tin The End... Or Is It? 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For! Emphasis! Dark Action Girl Abusive Parents Manipulative Bastard Evil vs. Evil Flipping the Bird Decoy Protagonist Big Brother Instinct BFG Wrong Genre Savvy Red Herring Gold Digger Slasher Smile Adaptational Attractiveness Credits Gag No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Eureka Moment Card-Carrying Villain Batman Gambit Not Using the "Z" Word Malevolent Masked Men After the End Recycled IN SPACE! La Résistance Authority Equals Asskicking Those Wacky Nazis Expository Hairstyle Change Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Left the Background Music On Hope Spot Major Injury Underreaction Determinator Insane Troll Logic Brother–Sister Incest All Girls Want Bad Boys Posthumous Character Freudian Excuse Broken Pedestal Only Known by Their Nickname Better to Die than Be Killed Translation Convention Due to the Dead Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? 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Camera Abuse The Hero Cool Guns Dull Surprise Loads and Loads of Characters "Shaggy Dog" Story Meet Cute Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Disney Death Light Is Not Good Easily Forgiven Redemption Equals Death Badass Grandpa Award-Bait Song Foil You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Arch-Enemy The Alleged Car Heroes Want Redheads Action Survivor Broken Bird Made of Iron No OSHA Compliance Disappeared Dad Early-Bird Cameo O.O.C. Is Serious Business Red Oni, Blue Oni Precision F-Strike Our Zombies Are Different Mercy Kill Blackmail Darker and Edgier Action Girl Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Character Development Asshole Victim Retired Badass Fire-Forged Friends Artistic License – Law Put on a Bus Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Fun with Acronyms Fake Shemp Evil Plan Coming-of-Age Story Smug Snake The Brute Historical Hero Upgrade Sinister Minister Villain with Good Publicity Men Are the Expendable Gender Retcon Race Against the Clock Neck Lift Air-Vent Passageway Death by Sex Bland-Name Product Overly Long Gag Betty and Veronica Reality Has No Subtitles Horror Films Be Careful What You Wish For Mighty Whitey Would Hit a Girl Ascended Extra The Film of the Book Adapted Out Anti-Villain The Starscream Vitriolic Best Buds The Dreaded Room Full of Crazy Parental Substitute How We Got Here Hell Is That Noise Cold-Blooded Torture Punch-Clock Villain Obfuscating Stupidity Monumental Damage Exact Words Rewatch Bonus Tagline Logo Joke Show Within a Show Fan Disservice As Himself Red Shirt Corpsing Sanity Slippage Taking the Bullet Badass Bookworm Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun He Who Fights Monsters Only a Flesh Wound Four-Temperament Ensemble Obstructive Bureaucrat Not Even Bothering with the Accent Soft Glass Rousing Speech Apocalypse How Artistic License – Gun Safety Badass in a Nice Suit Darkest Hour The Oner Well-Intentioned Extremist Slap-Slap-Kiss Visual Pun Stylistic Suck Aww, Look! 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Pragmatic Adaptation All for Nothing Bottomless Magazines Took a Level in Badass The Sociopath Idiot Ball Imagine Spot Trailers Always Spoil Ungrateful Bastard Girl-on-Girl Is Hot More Dakka Badass Boast Self-Deprecation World of Ham Brick Joke Alas, Poor Villain Butt-Monkey All Just a Dream What the Hell, Hero? Bullying a Dragon Badass Normal Dirty Coward Ms. Fanservice Almost Kiss Psycho for Hire Never Trust a Trailer