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