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