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