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