Tropescilloscope: Real Life

Reality, described as a TV show or video game. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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