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