Tropescilloscope: Contrived Coincidence

Something really unlikely happens but nobody acknowledges how unlikely it is. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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