Tropescilloscope: Real Life Writes the Plot

Real Life events determine the work's design. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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