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