Tropescilloscope: Show Within a Show

A program that the characters in-universe are watching. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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