Tropescilloscope: Reality Ensues

When characters find out Real Life doesn't work That Way. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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