Tropescilloscope: Wrong Genre Savvy

A character thinks they're in a genre with different rules than the one they're actually in. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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