Tropescilloscope: Contrived Coincidence

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

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