Tropescilloscope: Reality Is Unrealistic

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

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