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