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