Tropescilloscope: Truth in Television

When a trope actually does happen in Real Life. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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