Tropescilloscope: Very Loosely Based on a True Story

While based on true events, the story is heavily fictionalized from the real one. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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