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Are those examples more realistic than what has happened before on "realistic, grounded works"? Even something like "Game Of Thrones" has the dragons and the White Walkers and the giant wolves and the like... and so many backstabbers that it's hard to believe that they wouldn't have applauded something like the Red Wedding or having one of them get a scene where they go "sheesh, I sure wish I had been the one to do it first" (even in someplace very, very private)... but the reaction to the Wedding is everybody, and that is everybody being appalled.

This is, of course, an example. But the thing is, I don't think the cleanup is needed.

What up with the massive cleanup. The Live Flim it nearly half was gone?

I did it because most of those examples were deconstructions. As the trope page says, Reality Ensues is temporary and mainly used for comedy. If it doesn't fit any of those, then it's a deconstruction. Most of the examples in that page were just movies doing something that would just happen in real life, with no previous attempt to play by the fictional world's rules. Then again, if I'm wrong, feel free to correct me.

I send it back, fixed. I've sent Master Hero a note about it, so no need to report.

FYI, I agree that Reality Ensues is getting overused. but this should get a TRS before anything else.

Nothing about Reality Ensues suggest it's limited to comedy or one off moment's even thought I agree it would be better that way. But if that is the case, the trope is so widely misused that such a large scale cleanup is needed that it needs some kind of approval.

Because nobody mentioned that in the RL cleanup thread.

I was about to present a question of this sort, from the opposite direction: No real life examples. Of a trope about reality well, ensuing in fiction. On the one hand, it's kinda absurd that such a meta concept would even NEED to be designated as a NRLEP trope.

On the other hand, "no real life instances of reality ensuring" is an equally amusing concept to see occur.

A link is always beneficial with web-works. At the very least we'll need a name of the work (and screen-name of author) otherwise how do we know it is an actual work instead of something that would be better on the Darth Wiki and Unpublished Works? It may not have to be notable, but it does have to be verifiable.

Here you go. Very MATURE CONTENT warning, but probably not NSFW, unless one habitually browses the Internet from work in large-text mode, or on the office projector.

I certainly don't hope this comes back to bite me when I'm looking for a job. Of course, anyone who happens across my TV Tropes history is either going to avoid it because they're familiar with the site, or more likely get sucked in and forget why they came, long before they see this post. :)

Too dumb to live and Reality is unrealistic should be enough.