Tropescilloscope: Real Life

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

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