Tropescilloscope: Real Life

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

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