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