Tropescilloscope: All Just a Dream

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

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