Tropescilloscope: Real Life Writes the Plot

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

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