Tropescilloscope: Reality Is Unrealistic

Something media made up is assumed to be the way it really is. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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