Tropescilloscope: Artistic License – Physics

The creator of a work of fiction plays with the basic laws of physics in order to make the story work better. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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