Tropescilloscope: Reality Ensues

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

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Death by Adaptation Fake Shemp Every Car Is a Pinto Star-Crossed Lovers Moment Killer Apocalypse How Artistic License – Law Artistic License – Military Bloody Hilarious Composite Character Bury Your Gays Setting Update The Dragon Whole Plot Reference Badass Boast Early-Bird Cameo Villain with Good Publicity Black Comedy Rape Fiery Redhead Double Entendre Eagleland Closed Circle Alas, Poor Villain Vomit Indiscretion Shot Villainous Breakdown Evil Brit Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism One-Man Army Evil Sounds Deep Fun with Acronyms Costume Porn Humiliation Conga Celebrity Paradox Serial Killer Heroic BSoD Arranged Marriage Shoot the Shaggy Dog Chase Scene Bond Villain Stupidity Smoking Is Cool Wham Line Drugs Are Bad Unusual Euphemism A.I. Is a Crapshoot Grey and Gray Morality Instant Death Bullet The Great Depression Stealth Hi/Bye Stock Footage Determinator aka: The Determinator Hollywood Law Distracted by the Sexy Nice Guy Historical Hero Upgrade Evil Is Petty Jerkass Has a Point Naïve Newcomer No OSHA Compliance Earn Your Happy Ending Spiteful Spit Cold-Blooded Torture Spiritual Successor Bittersweet Ending Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Eiffel Tower Effect Knight Templar The Big Guy Slasher Smile Rule of Cool Department of Redundancy Department Bond One-Liner Ax-Crazy Greater-Scope Villain Flipping the Bird Hollywood Darkness Accidental Misnaming Does Not Like Shoes Peek-a-Boo Corpse Tap on the Head Eyepatch of Power Never Trust a Trailer Police are Useless Action Girl Disney Villain Death Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality The Stoner Parental Neglect Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Failed a Spot Check Italian Films An Aesop Martial Arts Movie Shown Their Work Important Haircut Faux Affably Evil Dwindling Party Police Brutality Better to Die than Be Killed Crucified Hero Shot From Nobody to Nightmare You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Skewed Priorities Mooks No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Badass in a Nice Suit Historical Villain Upgrade Storming the Castle Stepford Smiler Dramedy Slasher Movie This Is Gonna Suck The Stinger The Mole Take a Third Option Ominous Latin Chanting Artistic License – Biology She's Got Legs Suspiciously Specific Denial Demoted to Extra Artistic License – Physics Determinator Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Broken Bird Double-Meaning Title Would Hit a Girl Drives Like Crazy Fatal Flaw B-Movie Back from the Dead Spell My Name with an "S" The Brute Rasputinian Death Aside Glance Pragmatic Adaptation Bilingual Bonus Improvised Weapon The Hero Stealth Pun Final Girl Light Is Not Good Insane Troll Logic Attempted Rape Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Christmas Movies Index The Casanova Rule of Funny Papa Wolf Death of a Child The Ghost The Stoic Butt-Monkey Crazy Jealous Guy The '90s Beard of Evil Daddy's Girl After the End Blatant Lies Only Known by Their Nickname Improbable Weapon User Title Drop And Starring Leaning on the Fourth Wall Documentary Shipper on Deck Bland-Name Product Show Within a Show Not So Above It All Redshirt Army Loads and Loads of Characters Together in Death Meaningful Name Awesome, but Impractical As Long as It Sounds Foreign Mercy Kill Red Eyes, Take Warning The Chessmaster Cruel and Unusual Death Author Avatar He Who Fights Monsters Narrator Properly Paranoid Villain Ball Credits Gag Downer Ending Word of God Defiant to the End Breaking the Fourth Wall Vacation Films Manipulative Bastard Epic Fail Creator Cameo Combat Pragmatist Outrun the Fireball Insult Backfire Homage Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Those Two Bad Guys I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Based on a True Story Cluster F-Bomb No Celebrities Were Harmed Continuity Nod Off-into-the-Distance Ending Here We Go Again! Reckless Gun Usage Politically Incorrect Villain Translation Convention Ass Shove Crapsack World Even Evil Has Standards Henpecked Husband Half the Man He Used to Be It Will Never Catch On Lighter and Softer Ms. Fanservice Roaring Rampage of Revenge Adaptation Name Change NO INDOOR VOICE Air-Vent Passageway Epic Movie Aluminum Christmas Trees The Mafia Sanity Slippage Evil-Detecting Dog Author Appeal Screw the Rules, I Have Money! No-Sell Parental Incest Evil Counterpart Victoria's Secret Compartment Sir Swears-a-Lot "Well Done, Son!" Guy Kill 'em All Noodle Incident Fish out of Water The Faceless Index of Film Westerns Friend to All Children Camp Gay Punny Name Bolivian Army Ending Truth in Television Dark Reprise Implacable Man Toplessness from the Back Animal Motifs Kick the Son of a Bitch My God, What Have I Done? Adapted Out Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Needs Wiki Magic Love Body Horror Alliterative Name Real Life Writes the Plot The End... Or Is It? What Happened to the Mouse? 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Jump Scare Daylight Horror Foil From Bad to Worse Malevolent Masked Men BFG Ripped from the Headlines Cassandra Truth Hope Spot Pretty Little Headshots Call-Back Age Lift Five-Man Band Broken Aesop Action Prologue Big "NO!" The X of Y Historical In-Joke Fat Bastard Stalker with a Crush Heterosexual Life-Partners Danny Peary Cult Movies List Scenery Gorn Imagine Spot The Bad Guy Wins Russian Films Unwitting Instigator of Doom Eye Scream Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Romantic Comedy Mistaken for Gay Betty and Veronica Sacrificial Lion Those Wacky Nazis Dramatic Gun Cock And the Adventure Continues Reality Has No Subtitles Deliberately Monochrome Book-Ends Morality Pet Award-Bait Song The Smurfette Principle Dramatic Irony Our Vampires Are Different Gratuitous English Leitmotif An Axe to Grind Captain Ersatz Impaled with Extreme Prejudice An Arm and a Leg Unreliable Narrator Black Best Friend Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene The Dog Bites Back Brainless Beauty Playing Gertrude Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? 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Meaningful Echo Smug Snake Blood from the Mouth Stylistic Suck Diabolus ex Machina Poor Communication Kills A Father to His Men She Cleans Up Nicely Bald of Evil Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Say My Name One Steve Limit Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Dirty Coward Idiot Ball Dying Moment of Awesome My Beloved Smother Horror Films Evil Plan Funny Background Event Extremely Short Timespan You Killed My Father Covers Always Lie Serious Business The Chick Driven to Suicide '80s Hair Punch-Clock Villain Punctuated! For! Emphasis! For Want of a Nail Corpsing Catapult Nightmare Sassy Black Woman Dumb Blonde All Just a Dream Dark Action Girl Reality Ensues Biopic Broken Pedestal In Medias Res Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Pre-Mortem One-Liner Framing Device Pet the Dog Ironic Echo Offscreen Teleportation Karmic Death Babies Ever After Accidental Murder Ship Tease Expository Hairstyle Change Worthy Opponent Throwing Your Sword Always Works Totally Radical No Antagonist No Name Given All There in the Manual Did Not Get the Girl Damsel in Distress Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Facial Horror Big-Bad Ensemble Face Death with Dignity Big Damn Heroes Ascended Extra Calling the Old Man Out Femme Fatale Motor Mouth Defrosting Ice Queen Catch-Phrase Really Gets Around There Is No Kill Like Overkill Neck Lift Visual Pun Intrepid Reporter Romantic False Lead Super Strength Hoist by His Own Petard Names to Run Away from Really Fast Abhorrent Admirer Artistic License – History Canon Foreigner Re-Cut Obviously Evil The '80s "Shaggy Dog" Story Jerkass Drowning My Sorrows Adaptation Distillation Dressing as the Enemy Canadian Movies Disguised in Drag Chekhov's Gunman Even Evil Has Loved Ones Grievous Bottley Harm Adaptation Dye-Job Intergenerational Friendship Revenge The Lancer Dropped a Bridge on Him Brick Joke No Ending Running Gag The Dreaded One-Word Title Batman Gambit Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" The Alcoholic Woman Scorned Well-Intentioned Extremist Film Series Never Found the Body O.O.C. Is Serious Business Humans Are Bastards Affably Evil Fourth Date Marriage Red Right Hand Sealed Evil in a Can Corrupt Corporate Executive Everyone Has Standards Big Brother Instinct Wrong Genre Savvy Extreme Doormat Off with His Head! Bottomless Magazines Cool Car Conspicuous CG Comically Missing the Point Chiaroscuro Cat Scare Red Oni, Blue Oni Hell Is That Noise Mind Screw Insistent Terminology The Quiet One It's Personal Shower Scene Not Even Bothering with the Accent All Girls Want Bad Boys Soundtrack Dissonance Dirty Cop Black Comedy Mugging the Monster Curb-Stomp Battle I Have Your Wife Sequel Hook Suddenly SHOUTING! The Cameo Break the Haughty Naked People Are Funny Fantastic Racism Unspoken Plan Guarantee Heel Realization Rousing Speech Lock and Load Montage Hair-Trigger Temper Mexican Standoff Suspiciously Similar Substitute Darkest Hour Shirtless Scene Creative Closing Credits Fantasy Films Pretty in Mink Car Fu The '50s Male Gaze Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Faking the Dead It's All About Me Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Anti-Hero Dull Surprise Adaptational Heroism Bowdlerise Fatal Family Photo Japanese Films Amusing Injuries Woman in White Made of Iron Character Development Cloudcuckoolander folderlabel Novelization In Name Only Due to the Dead Historical-Domain Character Dark and Troubled Past timeperiod Actor Allusion Villain Protagonist Beauty Is Never Tarnished Mood Whiplash "Awesome McCool" Name Demonic Possession Amoral Attorney The Sociopath Artistic License – Gun Safety Chekhov's Gun Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! The Cavalry A Minor Kidroduction Wounded Gazelle Gambit Fire-Forged Friends Mythology Gag Becoming the Mask Your Head A-Splode Bi the Way Left the Background Music On Fanservice Extra Children Are Innocent Mighty Whitey Soft Glass Race Lift Almost Kiss Jitter Cam Mr. Fanservice It Can Think Big Bad Duumvirate The '70s Mad Scientist Australian Movies Cat Fight Cool Shades As the Good Book Says... Unusually Uninteresting Sight Have a Gay Old Time N-Word Privileges Rich Bitch Break the Cutie Freeze-Frame Bonus He Knows Too Much Overprotective Dad My Greatest Failure Manic Pixie Dream Girl Plot Hole Casting Gag MacGuffin Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Random Events Plot Bloodier and Gorier Depraved Bisexual Villain Song Older Than They Look Villain Opening Scene Coming-of-Age Story Yandere Deus ex Machina The Film of the Book Good Is Not Nice Reality Is Unrealistic All Men Are Perverts Once More, with Clarity! Wham Shot Advertised Extra Manly Tears Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Meaningful Background Event World of Ham Man on Fire Kids Are Cruel Guile Hero Jerk with a Heart of Gold Maybe Ever After Those Two Guys Sinister Minister Annoying Younger Sibling Laughing Mad Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Oh, Crap! Neck Snap Easily Forgiven Darker and Edgier Dissonant Serenity The Bully Exactly What It Says on the Tin Mystery and Detective Films Guns Akimbo Training Montage Bring My Brown Pants Only Sane Man Public Domain Feature Films Artistic License – Geography Stuff Blowing Up War Is Hell Token Minority Film Noir How We Got Here Evil Laugh Spanner in the Works Unresolved Sexual Tension Animal Title Index Same Language Dub For the Evulz You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Crazy-Prepared Adaptational Villainy Psychological Thriller Agony of the Feet Big Bad Call-Forward Does This Remind You of Anything? Retcon Irony Tagline Brutal Honesty Cain and Abel Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Logo Joke Gender Flip Camera Abuse French Films Obfuscating Stupidity Asshole Victim In the Back Developing Doomed Characters Blood Knight Adults Are Useless Funny Foreigner Happily Married Slap-Slap-Kiss True Companions Card-Carrying Villain Rewatch Bonus Recycled IN SPACE! Green-Eyed Monster Gone Horribly Right I Need a Freaking Drink Major Injury Underreaction Abusive Parents Dutch Angle Bad Boss Groin Attack Chekhov's Skill Red Shirt Domestic Abuse Bait-and-Switch Gory Discretion Shot Match Cut A God Am I Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Only a Flesh Wound Madness Mantra Exact Words The Reveal Made of Explodium Pyrrhic Victory Four-Temperament Ensemble Our Zombies Are Different Cowboy Cop Non-Indicative Name The Load Actually Pretty Funny Fate Worse than Death Bloodless Carnage Dual Wielding Adaptation Expansion Vitriolic Best Buds Bad "Bad Acting" Boom, Headshot! Make It Look Like an Accident Thriller