Tropescilloscope: Real Life

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

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