Tropescilloscope: All Just a Dream

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

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