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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Screw the Money, I Have Rules! A God Am I Friend to All Children Punch-Clock Villain Motor Mouth Bald of Evil Defiant to the End Card-Carrying Villain Author Appeal Dark Is Not Evil Older Than They Look Red Herring Film Noir Index Nice Guy Lighter and Softer The Dreaded The Atoner Aluminum Christmas Trees What Happened to the Mouse? The Big Guy Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Sci-Fi Horror Mundane Made Awesome Historical Hero Upgrade Bring My Brown Pants Determinator Anachronism Stew Dogged Nice Guy World of Ham In Medias Res Drowning My Sorrows Non-Indicative Name Not Using the "Z" Word For the Evulz Twist Ending Villain with Good Publicity Honor Before Reason Foreshadowing Unusually Uninteresting Sight Italian Films Decoy Protagonist Arch-Enemy Car Fu Shower Scene Adaptation Name Change Evil Plan Disappeared Dad Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Leitmotif Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Brother–Sister Incest Only in It for the Money Gratuitous English More Dakka Woman Scorned Curb-Stomp Battle Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil The Bully Fatal Flaw Australian Movies Adults Are Useless Unresolved Sexual Tension Drives Like Crazy Men Are the Expendable Gender Big Damn Heroes Author Avatar All Men Are Perverts Action Prologue Big Brother Instinct Bowdlerise Age Lift "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Riddle for the Ages Gilligan Cut Self-Deprecation Bavarian Fire Drill Kick the Dog He Who Fights Monsters Action Girl Heel–Face Turn Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Deliberate Values Dissonance Based on a True Story Dramatic Irony Ass Shove The Lost Lenore The Reveal Fantasy Films Canadian Movies Spell My Name with an "S" Your Head A-Splode Hong Kong Films Be Careful What You Wish For Depraved Bisexual Stalker with a Crush Horror Films Posthumous Character Mythology Gag I'm a Humanitarian Improbable Weapon User Disguised in Drag Retcon Redemption Equals Death Moment Killer Villain Protagonist From Nobody to Nightmare It's All About Me Dirty Coward Dramatic Gun Cock Vomit Discretion Shot My God, What Have I Done? Manly Tears Camera Abuse Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Disproportionate Retribution Laughing Mad Funny Foreigner Getting Crap Past the Radar Large Ham Karma Houdini Expy Worthy Opponent It's Personal Fantastic Racism Romantic False Lead The Stoic Corpsing Black Best Friend Light Is Not Good Batman Gambit Gone Horribly Right Woman in White Extremely Short Timespan Animal Title Index Television Movie Index Shell-Shocked Veteran Obviously Evil Scenery Gorn Precision F-Strike Kick the Son of a Bitch Rule of Funny Driven to Suicide Brutal Honesty Police are Useless She Cleans Up Nicely Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Double Entendre Taking You with Me Those Two Guys Poor Communication Kills Spiteful Spit You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Video Credits Parental Substitute Trailers Always Spoil Male Gaze Maybe Ever After Amoral Attorney Ugly Guy, Hot Wife BFG Red Shirt Informed Ability Historical In-Joke Immune to Bullets All There in the Script Artistic License – Gun Safety Properly Paranoid Fish out of Water Break the Haughty Four-Temperament Ensemble Pragmatic Adaptation Take a Third Option "Awesome McCool" Name Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Unusual Euphemism Ax-Crazy Pragmatic Villainy MacGuffin Good Is Not Nice Faking the Dead The Smurfette Principle Important Haircut Cowboy Cop Insistent Terminology Daddy's Girl Manic Pixie Dream Girl Danny Peary Cult Movies List Creepy Child Narrator Darker and Edgier Rape as Drama Aside Glance Fun with Acronyms Blatant Lies Vomit Indiscretion Shot Would Hit a Girl Taking the Bullet No Celebrities Were Harmed Big "NO!" As the Good Book Says... "The Reason You Suck" Speech Heterosexual Life-Partners Not So Different Butt-Monkey The End... Or Is It? Star-Crossed Lovers All Girls Want Bad Boys The Film of the Book Naked People Are Funny Coming-of-Age Story Heroes Want Redheads Not So Stoic Contrived Coincidence Homage Spanner in the Works Truth in Television Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Hooker with a Heart of Gold Eagleland Pretty in Mink Broken Bird Cain and Abel Only Known by Their Nickname Bloodless Carnage The '60s Reality Is Unrealistic Does Not Like Shoes Irony Sole Survivor Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Boom, Headshot! Sequel Escalation Random Events Plot Rasputinian Death Too Dumb to Live Eye Scream Femme Fatale Groin Attack Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Overly Long Gag The Musical timeperiod Disney Villain Death Smug Snake Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Blood Knight Punny Name 20 Minutes into the Future Anachronic Order Adorkable Black and Gray Morality Index of Film Westerns Made of Explodium Fire-Forged Friends Fourth Date Marriage Man on Fire Award-Bait Song Slashed Throat Revenge Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Lock and Load Montage Anti-Villain Film Noir Skewed Priorities Dies Wide Open Handicapped Badass Comically Missing the Point Death of a Child The '50s Badass in a Nice Suit Say My Name Destination Defenestration Only a Flesh Wound Would Hurt a Child Composite Character Grey and Gray Morality Manchild Our Zombies Are Different Suddenly SHOUTING! Abusive Parents A.I. Is a Crapshoot Country Matters The Cameo Retired Badass Slap-Slap-Kiss May–December Romance Animal Motifs Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? 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Grievous Bottley Harm Villainous Breakdown Dramedy Darkest Hour Distracted by the Sexy Dull Surprise Continuity Nod Artistic License – Military Last-Name Basis Kill 'em All Costume Porn Mugging the Monster Captain Ersatz Cool Car Dissonant Serenity Evil Is Hammy I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Rule of Symbolism Does This Remind You of Anything? Martial Arts Movie Undying Loyalty Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Henpecked Husband Agony of the Feet Obfuscating Stupidity Better to Die than Be Killed Pimped-Out Dress Translation Convention Bilingual Bonus Only Sane Man Major Injury Underreaction Gorn Anti-Hero The Stinger Military and Warfare Films Bare Your Midriff The Ditz Stock Footage Intrepid Reporter Despair Event Horizon No Name Given Playing Gertrude Historical Villain Upgrade Knight Templar Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking "Well Done, Son!" Guy Zombie Stories Take That! Alliterative Name Overprotective Dad Shipper on Deck And the Adventure Continues Your Cheating Heart Ungrateful Bastard As Long as It Sounds Foreign Hidden Depths Ambiguous Ending Artistic License – History Big Fancy House Didn't Think This Through Pay Evil unto Evil Bolivian Army Ending Loads and Loads of Characters Frame-Up Humiliation Conga Ironic Echo Never Trust a Trailer O.O.C. Is Serious Business Big-Bad Ensemble Training Montage Only One Name Bury Your Gays Book-Ends One-Man Army Bland-Name Product Race Lift Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Tempting Fate Really Gets Around The Place Jerk Jock Children Are Innocent Spiritual Successor Toplessness from the Back Canon Foreigner You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Expository Hairstyle Change The Starscream Fanservice Framing Device Artistic License – Biology Berserk Button Evil vs. Evil Crazy-Prepared Oh, Crap! Black Comedy Rape Captain Obvious Biopic Camp Gay Wicked Cultured Bloodier and Gorier Not Even Bothering with the Accent Humans Are Bastards B-Movie Big Eater Mighty Whitey Chekhov's Gunman Red Eyes, Take Warning Fate Worse than Death Sinister Minister Cat Fight Parental Incest Artistic License – Physics Unreliable Narrator Break the Cutie Left the Background Music On Armor-Piercing Question Cruel and Unusual Death Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? No Ending Domestic Abuse Wrong Genre Savvy Stepford Smiler Cassandra Truth Mood Whiplash Plot Hole Hypocrite Badass Bookworm Off with His Head! Nice Hat My Greatest Failure Fanservice Extra Half the Man He Used to Be Determinator aka: The Determinator Mr. Fanservice Even Evil Has Loved Ones Those Two Bad Guys Adaptation Expansion Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Flipping the Bird Deadpan Snarker Crucified Hero Shot Dark Action Girl Spared by the Adaptation Race Against the Clock Knife Nut The Bad Guy Wins Malevolent Masked Men Totally Radical Logo Joke Documentary Affectionate Parody Suspiciously Similar Substitute Belligerent Sexual Tension The Load Those Wacky Nazis Pre-Mortem One-Liner Bad Boss Foil Wham Shot Film Series Hoist by His Own Petard Pet the Dog Thriller Scary Black Man Deal with the Devil Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Amusing Injuries Insult Backfire Brainless Beauty As Himself Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer It Can Think As You Know Due to the Dead The Lancer Dark and Troubled Past Visual Pun Kubrick Stare Leaning on the Fourth Wall The Alcoholic Eiffel Tower Effect Pretty Little Headshots Adaptation Distillation The Mole "Shaggy Dog" Story Curse Cut Short Bait-and-Switch Wretched Hive Obstructive Bureaucrat Ghost Fiction Fat Bastard Victoria's Secret Compartment Arc Words Early Installment Weirdness Scenery Porn Five-Man Band Black Dude Dies First Chekhov's Skill Mad Scientist Establishing Character Moment Line-of-Sight Name Our Vampires Are Different Annoying Younger Sibling Red Oni, Blue Oni One-Word Title Papa Wolf Ascended Extra Silent Movie Mistaken for Gay Casting Gag Product Placement Adaptational Badass Artistic License – Geography Breaking the Fourth Wall Plucky Comic Relief Offscreen Moment of Awesome Serious Business Air-Vent Passageway Russian Films Animated Credits Opening Celebrity Paradox Tranquil Fury Auto Erotica Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Broken Aesop Beta Couple Final Girl Rewatch Bonus Shout-Out Running Gag Improbable Aiming Skills This Is Gonna Suck The '70s The Hero Dies Demonic Possession Department of Redundancy Department Works Set in World War II Meaningful Background Event Smoking Is Cool Crapsack World Fan Disservice Affably Evil Evil Is Petty Evil Brit Novelization The Chick Chewing the Scenery Deliberately Monochrome Freudian Excuse Stealth Hi/Bye Beauty Is Never Tarnished Corrupt Corporate Executive Crazy Jealous Guy Jerkass Jerk with a Heart of Gold War Is Hell Hero Antagonist The Ghost And I Must Scream Accidental Murder The Great Depression I Did What I Had to Do Idiot Ball Improvised Weapon Gender Flip Badass Boast Put on a Bus Dropped a Bridge on Him Outrun the Fireball How We Got Here Male Frontal Nudity The Oner Guns Akimbo Not Quite Dead Big Bad Match Cut Facial Horror Becoming the Mask Instant Death Bullet An Aesop Hell Is That Noise Apocalypse How Wham Line Cool Old Lady Sadistic Choice True Companions The Dragon Jitter Cam Once More, with Clarity! 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Took a Level in Jerkass Karmic Death Have a Gay Old Time Easily Forgiven In Name Only Evil Sounds Deep Genre Shift Adaptation Dye-Job Reality Ensues Meaningful Name Cold-Blooded Torture Psycho for Hire Intergenerational Friendship Superhero Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Mama Bear Downer Ending Heel Realization Silence Is Golden Mr. Exposition Super Strength Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Evil Counterpart Face Death with Dignity Meaningful Echo Guile Hero British Films Noodle Incident What the Hell, Hero? 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