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