Tropescilloscope: Real Life Writes the Plot

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

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