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