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)

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