Tropescilloscope: Real Life

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

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