Tropescilloscope: Real Life Writes the Plot

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

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