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