Tropescilloscope: Real Life Writes the Plot

Real Life events determine the work's design. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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