Tropescilloscope: Real Life

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

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