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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What the Hell, Hero? Unwitting Instigator of Doom Real Life Writes the Plot No Antagonist Bland-Name Product Playing Gertrude Vampire Fiction Vomit Discretion Shot Artistic License – History Blood Knight Ironic Echo Imagine Spot Early-Bird Cameo Hero Antagonist Very Loosely Based on a True Story Those Two Guys Creative Closing Credits Rich Bitch Adaptational Badass Enemy Mine Adaptation Distillation Even Evil Has Standards Character Development O.O.C. Is Serious Business Red Right Hand Cluster F-Bomb Cool Old Guy Alpha Bitch Foreshadowing Card-Carrying Villain Overprotective Dad One-Man Army Ass Shove Wrong Genre Savvy Show Within a Show Politically Incorrect Villain Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Expy Easily Forgiven Here We Go Again! Call-Forward Rule of Cool Animal Title Index Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor For Want of a Nail Same Language Dub Adapted Out Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Costume Porn Adaptational Villainy Major Injury Underreaction Children Are Innocent Big Damn Heroes Only a Flesh Wound Demoted to Extra Dramatic Gun Cock Kick the Son of a Bitch Chase Scene Non-Indicative Name Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" The Stoic Belligerent Sexual Tension Adaptational Heroism Villainous Breakdown Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Framing Device Parental Abandonment Red Shirt Rewatch Bonus Only Sane Man N-Word Privileges Match Cut The Remake Evil Cannot Comprehend Good The Dog Bites Back Adults Are Useless Dissonant Serenity Cold-Blooded Torture All There in the Script Retcon Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? 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