Tropescilloscope: Aluminum Christmas Trees

Sounds fictional, but does (or at least did) actually exist. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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All Just a Dream Cowboy Cop Rousing Speech Ghost Fiction Say My Name Christmas Movies Index No Name Given Evil Plan Bring My Brown Pants Blood from the Mouth Kick the Son of a Bitch Artistic License – Military Naked People Are Funny Motor Mouth Amusing Injuries Vitriolic Best Buds Revenge Wham Shot Black Best Friend Brick Joke In Medias Res Cruel and Unusual Death Ship Tease Not Quite Dead Cain and Abel Dwindling Party Black Comedy Rape Combat Pragmatist Took a Level in Jerkass Running Gag Drill Sergeant Nasty Bad Boss Married to the Job Heroic Sacrifice Smug Snake Evil Brit She's Got Legs Sequel Hook Boom, Headshot! Grey and Gray Morality Destination Defenestration May–December Romance Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Bald of Evil Red Shirt Artistic License – Gun Safety Funny Foreigner Brutal Honesty Heel Realization Video Credits Ambiguously Gay Sequel Escalation Zombie Stories Rule of Three In Name Only Face–Heel Turn 20 Minutes into the Future Actor Allusion Break the Haughty Those Two Bad Guys Those Two Guys Rasputinian Death A Date with Rosie Palms Not Even Bothering with the Accent Star-Crossed Lovers Bloodless Carnage Historical Villain Upgrade Rule of Cool Mooks Blood Knight BFG The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Put on a Bus "The Reason You Suck" Speech One-Man Army Red Right Hand Crapsack World Missing Mom Good Is Not Nice Paper-Thin Disguise The Ace Imagine Spot Country Matters He Knows Too Much The Un-Reveal It's All About Me "Shaggy Dog" Story Hero of Another Story Does This Remind You of Anything? Bloodier and Gorier Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Creative Closing Credits Hair-Trigger Temper Dumb Blonde Extreme Doormat Determinator aka: The Determinator Almost Kiss Too Dumb to Live Take a Third Option Historical-Domain Character Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Guns Akimbo Naïve Newcomer Insistent Terminology Soundtrack Dissonance Deal with the Devil Dull Surprise Military and Warfare Films Cluster F-Bomb Accidental Murder Flashback The Lancer Bowdlerise Easily Forgiven Rated M for Manly Tempting Fate Homage Cat Fight Mistaken for Gay Death by Sex The Dog Bites Back Bullying a Dragon The Mole Determinator Sexy Discretion Shot Non-Indicative Name "Awesome McCool" Name Ambiguous Ending Instant Death Bullet Properly Paranoid Woman in White Translation Convention Happily Married Bury Your Gays Author Appeal Action Genre Took a Level in Badass Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Suddenly SHOUTING! Improbable Aiming Skills Sacrificial Lion Lampshade Hanging Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Death by Irony Artistic License – History Ominous Latin Chanting Fake Shemp Morality Pet Darkest Hour Vacation Films Not So Above It All Pimped-Out Dress The Sociopath Action Girl Word of God Creepy Child Television Movie Index Adaptation Distillation Broken Pedestal Karma Houdini Improvised Weapon Evil Counterpart Punny Name Better to Die than Be Killed Plucky Comic Relief Genre Savvy Tap on the Head Ms. Fanservice Politically Incorrect Villain Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Dropped a Bridge on Him Red Eyes, Take Warning Antagonist Title Vampire Fiction Bound and Gagged Evil Is Petty Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Wounded Gazelle Gambit Slashed Throat The Stoic Time Skip Small Name, Big Ego Poor Communication Kills Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Eye Scream Exactly What It Says on the Tin Demoted to Extra Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Hollywood Law Defrosting Ice Queen Only Sane Man Femme Fatale Knight Templar Artistic License – Biology Your Cheating Heart Slap-Slap-Kiss Nice Hat Ironic Echo Famous Last Words Straight Gay Depraved Bisexual "Well Done, Son!" Guy Re-Cut Historical Hero Upgrade From Nobody to Nightmare Left the Background Music On Intrepid Reporter Our Zombies Are Different Shell-Shocked Veteran And Starring Fourth Date Marriage Groin Attack Major Injury Underreaction Chekhov's Gunman Your Head A-Splode Creator Cameo Deadpan Snarker Crazy Jealous Guy Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Darker and Edgier An Axe to Grind Shout-Out War Is Hell I'm a Humanitarian Rewatch Bonus Dirty Coward Faking the Dead For Want of a Nail Deliberately Monochrome Meaningful Background Event Mr. Fanservice The Cavalry Shipper on Deck Eiffel Tower Effect Mythology Gag And the Adventure Continues Very Loosely Based on a True Story Romantic False Lead Disappeared Dad Recycled IN SPACE! Badass Bookworm Trailers Always Spoil Vomit Indiscretion Shot Gold Digger Adaptational Heroism Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Drives Like Crazy Australian Movies Epic Fail Fainting La Résistance Villain Ball Parental Abandonment Anti-Hero Dies Wide Open Air-Vent Passageway Manchild Aww, Look! 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Is Serious Business Plot Hole Comically Missing the Point Precision F-Strike Brother–Sister Incest Camp Gay Mood Whiplash Police Brutality Canon Foreigner Suspiciously Similar Substitute Gory Discretion Shot The Musical Adaptation Dye-Job Dissonant Serenity Training Montage Empathic Environment Cool Old Lady Cool Old Guy It Can Think No OSHA Compliance Lighter and Softer An Aesop Shower Scene Leaning on the Fourth Wall The Smurfette Principle Genre Shift For the Evulz Henpecked Husband Idiot Ball It Will Never Catch On Maybe Ever After The Hero Dies Tranquil Fury Bloody Hilarious Never Found the Body No Ending Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Auto Erotica Man on Fire Call-Forward Love Triangle What the Hell, Hero? Framing Device Cool Shades Reality Is Unrealistic Badass Longcoat Hypocrite Taking the Bullet Fanservice Retcon Danny Peary Cult Movies List Age Lift Light Is Not Good Obstructive Bureaucrat Double-Meaning Title Black Dude Dies First Final Girl Faux Affably Evil Reckless Gun Usage Early-Bird Cameo Damsel in Distress A God Am I Greater-Scope Villain Large Ham Romantic Comedy Evil vs. Evil Annoying Younger Sibling Foil No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Adorkable Deliberate Values Dissonance Ax-Crazy Leave the Camera Running Monumental Damage No Antagonist Beta Couple Mercy Kill Gainax Ending Dirty Old Man Big Damn Heroes The End... Or Is It? Hooker with a Heart of Gold Arc Words Closed Circle Horror Films Cold-Blooded Torture Fatal Flaw Never Trust a Trailer Award-Bait Song Redemption Equals Death Title Drop Defiant to the End Knife Nut What Happened to the Mouse? As Long as It Sounds Foreign Older Than They Look Fan Disservice Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Anguished Declaration of Love Cool Car Asshole Victim Big Bad Duumvirate Heel–Face Turn Papa Wolf Humiliation Conga Costume Porn Not Using the "Z" Word Pre-Mortem One-Liner Moment Killer Decoy Protagonist Reasonable Authority Figure Killed Mid-Sentence Sinister Minister Even Evil Has Standards Malevolent Masked Men Police are Useless The Place Artistic License – Geography Brainless Beauty Serial Killer Last-Name Basis Bittersweet Ending Irony British Films Coming-of-Age Story German Films Redshirt Army Red Oni, Blue Oni Crazy-Prepared Domestic Abuse All Men Are Perverts Ascended Extra Spiritual Successor One Steve Limit Kick the Dog Manipulative Bastard Anti-Villain Arranged Marriage Overly Long Gag Psychopathic Manchild Mystery and Detective Films Fun with Acronyms Playing Gertrude Bad "Bad Acting" Works Set in World War II Unreliable Narrator Car Fu Shoot the Shaggy Dog Thriller Hong Kong Films Rule of Symbolism Death of a Child Badass Boast Card-Carrying Villain Laughing Mad Green-Eyed Monster The '90s Badass Normal Public Domain Feature Films '80s Hair Punch-Clock Villain Ungrateful Bastard Bavarian Fire Drill Same Language Dub Jump Scare Super Strength Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Bolivian Army Ending Driven to Suicide Ripped from the Headlines Silence Is Golden Stealth Hi/Bye Chase Scene Parental Incest Mundane Made Awesome The Ditz Everyone Has Standards Our Vampires Are Different Establishing Character Moment The Brute timeperiod Villain Opening Scene World of Ham Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Mugging the Monster Dressing as the Enemy Italian Films Advertised Extra Hollywood Darkness Chekhov's Skill You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Aluminum Christmas Trees Children Are Innocent Rich Bitch Mexican Standoff Be Careful What You Wish For The '80s Back from the Dead Names to Run Away from Really Fast My Beloved Smother Russian Films Fish out of Water Karmic Death Vomit Discretion Shot Male Gaze True Companions Unresolved Sexual Tension Artistic License – Law Only a Flesh Wound Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Taking You with Me Film Noir Demonic Possession Daylight Horror Dark and Troubled Past Guile Hero You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Foregone Conclusion NO INDOOR VOICE Sealed Evil in a Can Parental Neglect The X of Y Line-of-Sight Name Suspiciously Specific Denial One-Word Title Face Death with Dignity All Girls Want Bad Boys Offscreen Teleportation Twist Ending Leitmotif Eyepatch of Power Expy Not So Different Half the Man He Used to Be I Did What I Had to Do Those Wacky Nazis Outrun the Fireball Heroic BSoD Historical In-Joke Author Avatar A.I. Is a Crapshoot Villain with Good Publicity Broken Bird Unusual Euphemism Dramatic Gun Cock Logo Joke Smoking Is Cool Evil Is Hammy folderlabel Betty and Veronica Stylistic Suck Gorn Deus ex Machina The Faceless Needs Wiki Magic Love Animated Credits Opening Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Reality Ensues Adaptational Badass N-Word Privileges Chiaroscuro Dark Is Not Evil Hell Is That Noise Novelization Eagleland Awesome, but Impractical Self-Deprecation Babies Ever After Disney Death The Bully Death Glare Beware the Nice Ones Grievous Bottley Harm Character Development Dramedy Together in Death The Stinger The Stoner The Voiceless Fire-Forged Friends Expository Hairstyle Change Broken Aesop Oh, Crap! Mama Bear Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Shirtless Scene Music Stories Visual Pun Enemy Mine Mind Screw Off with His Head! Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Eldritch Abomination Let's Get Dangerous! My God, What Have I Done? Throwing Your Sword Always Works The Starscream Stock Footage Based on a True Story Unspoken Plan Guarantee As You Know All There in the Manual Cloudcuckoolander And I Must Scream Adaptation Name Change Central Theme Rape as Drama Make It Look Like an Accident Film Series The Oner Drowning My Sorrows Gilligan Cut Stealth Pun Dogged Nice Guy Up to Eleven Dirty Cop "Where Are They Now?" 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Belligerent Sexual Tension Adaptational Villainy Scenery Gorn Science Fiction Films Screw the Rules, I Have Money! As the Good Book Says... Curse Cut Short Here We Go Again! Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping More Dakka Love at First Sight Meaningful Name Loads and Loads of Characters Dual Wielding Scary Black Man After the End Sanity Slippage MacGuffin Wicked Cultured Fate Worse than Death Dark Action Girl Pre-Asskicking One-Liner The Reveal Breaking the Fourth Wall The '70s Scenery Porn Wham Line Product Placement Pretty in Mink Scare Chord Alliterative Name Dark Reprise Fanservice Extra Protagonist Title Anyone Can Die Funny Background Event Only One Name Match Cut French Films Tagline Nothing Is Scarier Stuff Blowing Up Peek-a-Boo Corpse Pyrrhic Victory The Mafia Spanner in the Works Contrived Coincidence Loophole Abuse