Tropescilloscope: Real Life Writes the Plot

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

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