Tropescilloscope: Real Life

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

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