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