Tropescilloscope: Reality Is Unrealistic

Something media made up is assumed to be the way it really is. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Bolivian Army Ending Real Life Ripped from the Headlines Madness Mantra Black and Gray Morality Neck Lift Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Redshirt Army Offscreen Moment of Awesome Coming-of-Age Story Amoral Attorney Storming the Castle The Cameo Race Lift Faux Affably Evil Anti-Villain Karmic Death Artistic License – Biology I Need a Freaking Drink Never My Fault Artistic License – Geography The Power of Love Bond One-Liner Author Appeal Butt-Monkey Epic Fail Antagonist Title Improvised Weapon Artistic License – Military Parental Abandonment The Reveal I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Red Eyes, Take Warning Manly Tears Annoying Younger Sibling Didn't Think This Through Damsel in Distress Developing Doomed Characters Noodle Incident Dual Wielding Earn Your Happy Ending "Well Done, Son!" 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Epilogue Retcon Sexy Discretion Shot Ominous Latin Chanting Fingore Jerk with a Heart of Gold What Happened to the Mouse? Mad Scientist Superhero Dramatic Gun Cock Evil-Detecting Dog Due to the Dead Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Animal Title Index Big Fancy House The Voiceless The Ditz You Killed My Father Heroic Sacrifice Evil Laugh Badass Normal Sacrificial Lion Awesome, but Impractical Refuge in Audacity No Celebrities Were Harmed Make It Look Like an Accident Easily Forgiven Serial Killer Faking the Dead There Is No Kill Like Overkill Bloodless Carnage Arranged Marriage Line-of-Sight Name Logo Joke Villain with Good Publicity Psychopathic Manchild No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Thriller Music Stories Suddenly SHOUTING! Television Movie Index Canadian Movies Hero Antagonist Belligerent Sexual Tension My God, What Have I Done? 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All There in the Manual Leitmotif Reality Is Unrealistic An Arm and a Leg It's All About Me Badass Bookworm Reality Has No Subtitles May–December Romance Alpha Bitch Names to Run Away from Really Fast Daylight Horror Setting Update Asshole Victim Dirty Cop Agony of the Feet Black Comedy Rape Sadistic Choice Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene "Awesome McCool" Name Leaning on the Fourth Wall Romantic Comedy Cool Car Adult Fear Video Credits Fainting Combat Pragmatist Oh, Crap! Ragtag Bunch of Misfits The Dreaded The Bully Big "NO!" Manipulative Bastard Eiffel Tower Effect Naïve Newcomer Expository Hairstyle Change '80s Hair Only Known by Their Nickname British Films Show Within a Show A Minor Kidroduction Final Girl Early-Bird Cameo Shell-Shocked Veteran Adaptation Expansion Conspicuous CG Market-Based Title Does This Remind You of Anything? Retired Badass Bullying a Dragon Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Police are Useless Artistic License – Physics Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Badass Grandpa Vacation Films Outrun the Fireball Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Mighty Whitey Shout-Out Attempted Rape What the Hell, Hero? Villain Song Wounded Gazelle Gambit Big Brother Instinct The Sociopath Rule of Symbolism Brick Joke Ambiguous Disorder Insistent Terminology Knife Nut Drill Sergeant Nasty Funny Foreigner Crucified Hero Shot Ambiguously Gay Rousing Speech Fatal Flaw Better to Die than Be Killed Foil Call-Forward Interrupted Suicide Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? A God Am I Trailers Always Spoil As the Good Book Says... Hypocrite Babies Ever After Implacable Man Made of Iron Man on Fire Dramatic Irony Friend to All Children Works Set in World War II Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Screw This, I'm Outta Here! 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You Have Failed Me Action Survivor Deus ex Machina The Ace Ascended Extra Black Comedy Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Fake Shemp Intrepid Reporter Laughing Mad Scary Black Man Bloodier and Gorier Empathic Environment Smoking Is Cool La Résistance Eureka Moment A Father to His Men Genre Throwback Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Greater-Scope Villain Wrong Genre Savvy No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Sequel Hook Made of Explodium Alliterative Name Adaptational Heroism Novelization Woman in White Happily Married Chewing the Scenery Missing Mom Stepford Smiler Disney Death Offscreen Teleportation I Did What I Had to Do Cruel and Unusual Death Dark and Troubled Past What You Are in the Dark All Men Are Perverts Animated Credits Opening Dull Surprise Really Gets Around Here We Go Again! An Axe to Grind Serious Business Not Using the "Z" Word Protagonist Title Ungrateful Bastard Bilingual Bonus Re-Cut Spanner in the Works Film Noir Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Badass Boast The Cavalry Adaptation Dye-Job The Hero Dies Morality Pet Canon Foreigner Animal Motifs Heterosexual Life-Partners Card-Carrying Villain Amusing Injuries Revenge Hong Kong Films Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Bi the Way Humiliation Conga Science Fiction Films Very Loosely Based on a True Story Nothing Is Scarier Non-Indicative Name Suspiciously Similar Substitute Unresolved Sexual Tension Fun with Acronyms Naked People Are Funny Evil Counterpart Fantastic Racism Badass in a Nice Suit Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Jerk Jock Deconstruction No-Sell Self-Deprecation Double-Meaning Title Becoming the Mask Costume Porn The Lost Lenore Break the Haughty Punny Name Shoot the Shaggy Dog Would Hit a Girl Mystery and Detective Films Dying Moment of Awesome War Is Hell Playing Gertrude Death by Sex B-Movie Male Frontal Nudity Abusive Parents Translation Convention Race Against the Clock Pre-Mortem One-Liner Wham Shot Fourth Date Marriage Fan Disservice Break the Cutie Obstructive Bureaucrat Heroic BSoD The Atoner Deadpan Snarker Half the Man He Used to Be Hidden Depths Comically Missing the Point Dirty Coward Actor Allusion Put on a Bus Pragmatic Adaptation Adapted Out Jump Scare Death Glare Redemption Equals Death Bar Brawl Pretty in Mink Parental Incest Dropped a Bridge on Him Exact Words Bring My Brown Pants The End... 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Is Serious Business The '60s Loads and Loads of Characters Scenery Porn Shown Their Work Moment Killer The Big Guy Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor I Have Your Wife And the Adventure Continues The Un-Reveal Downer Ending Car Fu Crapsack World Off with His Head! Not Quite Dead Small Name, Big Ego Unwitting Instigator of Doom Running Gag Villainous Breakdown Arc Words Properly Paranoid Whole Plot Reference Foregone Conclusion Gender Flip Face–Heel Turn Beta Couple Green-Eyed Monster Department of Redundancy Department Taking the Bullet Accidental Misnaming Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome The Smart Guy Killed Mid-Sentence Fish out of Water Poor Communication Kills Narrator Character Development Training Montage Groin Attack Time Skip Action Girl Corrupt Corporate Executive Pimped-Out Dress He Knows Too Much Take That! 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Darkest Hour Hoist by His Own Petard Mooks Bare Your Midriff Match Cut Sports Stories Expy Malevolent Masked Men Distracted by the Sexy Famous Last Words Lighter and Softer Blatant Lies Meaningful Name Wicked Cultured The Quiet One Ironic Echo The Ghost Adults Are Useless All Just a Dream Aluminum Christmas Trees Pet the Dog Extreme Doormat Crazy-Prepared Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Stealth Pun Bottomless Magazines Large Ham Air-Vent Passageway Straight Gay After the End Ambiguous Ending Parental Substitute Evil Plan Fatal Family Photo Christmas Movies Index Military and Warfare Films Bittersweet Ending Honor Before Reason Ms. Fanservice N-Word Privileges "The Reason You Suck" Speech Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Gratuitous English Not So Above It All Affably Evil Irony Ship Tease In Medias Res Dressing as the Enemy Depraved Bisexual Blackmail Betty and Veronica Arch-Enemy As Himself Intergenerational Friendship Hope Spot A Date with Rosie Palms Sole Survivor Back from the Dead Flashback Pay Evil unto Evil Informed Ability Framing Device Pragmatic Villainy Rule of Funny Flipping the Bird Manchild Scare Chord Silence Is Golden Bald of Evil NO INDOOR VOICE Improbable Aiming Skills Big Damn Heroes Covers Always Lie Toplessness from the Back Skewed Priorities Stylistic Suck Face Death with Dignity Drugs Are Bad Cool Old Lady Zombie Stories Disproportionate Retribution Bavarian Fire Drill Insult Backfire Early Installment Weirdness Evil vs. Evil Freeze-Frame Bonus Four-Temperament Ensemble Death of a Child Sir Swears-a-Lot Based on a True Story Only a Flesh Wound timeperiod Visual Pun Double Entendre Fanservice Russian Films Age Lift In the Back The Bad Guy Wins Red Oni, Blue Oni Slap-Slap-Kiss Older Than They Look Tranquil Fury And Starring Chekhov's Skill Dissonant Serenity Shut Up, Hannibal! The '70s Imagine Spot The Vamp The Stoner Action Genre Dies Wide Open Closed Circle