Tropescilloscope: Show Within a Show

A program that the characters in-universe are watching. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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