1 | This index is for tropes and categories that follow the Hollywood X naming scheme. |
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3 | Note that despite being called "Hollywood", those tropes are definitely not restricted to American big-budget cinema, and not necessarily coming from it; Hollywood movies being among the most accessible works of fiction in our modern world, it is only fair that people would believe most tropes (rightfully or [[OlderThanTelevision not]]) come from here. |
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5 | See also ArtisticLicense, which many tropes under this index fit various forms of. Compare to AnimeReality. |
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7 | !!Sub-categories: |
8 | [[index]] |
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10 | '''Also see:''' |
11 | * ArtisticLicense |
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13 | * HollywoodAtlas: Stereotypical portrayals of geographical regions. |
14 | * HollywoodEconomics: A character's finances are stable unless the plot needs it to change. |
15 | * HollywoodHistory: Deeply embedded perceptions and misconceptions of certain events, time periods, and societies. |
16 | * HollywoodScience: In fiction, drama defines the law of physics. |
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18 | !!The following tropes do not fit under any of the sub-categories: |
19 | * HollywoodAcid: Acid is always depicted as dissolving whatever it comes into contact with. |
20 | * HollywoodApocrypha: Biblical verses are misused or made up. |
21 | * HollywoodAtheist: The stereotype that atheists are condescending douchebags to everyone who has religious beliefs or are like that because they've concluded that the suffering and injustice they and/or others endure is proof that there isn't a God. |
22 | * HollywoodAutism: The stereotypical portrayal of autism, almost always male, unemotional, lacking empathy, with their autism being portrayed as a tragedy to them and others. |
23 | * HollywoodBeautyStandards: In general, Hollywood having its own beauty standards, having attractive characters be so in the same ways, "plain" characters actually being beautiful, etc. |
24 | * HollywoodBlanks: Firearms blanks are harmless InUniverse. |
25 | * HollywoodBoardGames: BoardGame-based {{characterization|Tropes}}. |
26 | * HollywoodCalifornia: California only has four places, according to Hollywood. These places are South Central, Hollywood/Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Orange Valley. |
27 | * HollywoodCB: Two-way radios are used exactly like telephones. |
28 | * HollywoodChameleons: Chameleons have an unlimited color-changing ability and can even mimic patterns to become invisible in their surroundings. |
29 | * HollywoodCostuming: Clothing, hairstyles, and makeup don't fit in with the time period of the work. |
30 | * HollywoodDarkness: Even though it's dark, blueish light allows the audience to see and characters not to bump into anything. |
31 | * HollywoodDensity: Objects don't weigh the same as they do in real life. |
32 | * HollywoodDreamtime: People in the West don't even know what the Dreamtime even is, so of course Hollywood is just gonna throw darts onto a board to decide what it is supposed to be. |
33 | * HollywoodDrowning: Drowning people are portrayed as screaming and violently splashing for several minutes as opposed to quietly and quickly sinking. |
34 | * HollywoodEncryption: Computer encryption is portrayed with many inaccuracies and/or as very easy. |
35 | * HollywoodExorcism: The typical depiction of a demonic exorcism includes calling on a deity, chanting, using holy symbols, and a ''whole lot'' of nightmarish behavior from the possessed. |
36 | * HollywoodFire: Fire is portrayed as not having as much heat or smoke as it would in RealLife. |
37 | * HollywoodGameDesign: Creating a video game (let alone a very successful one) is portrayed as a simple process that only includes a bit of coding and creating 3D models. |
38 | * HollywoodGiftwrap: The typical gift in Hollywood is a box and a lid, each wrapped individually, with nothing securing the lid to the box, with a very elaborate bow on top. |
39 | * HollywoodGlasscutter: With the help of a device, a diamond ring, or even incredibly sharp nails, cutting out a perfect shape from glass is as easy as cutting paper. |
40 | * HollywoodHacking: Hacking in RealLife is a pretty boring process, so it's often portrayed as RapidFireTyping coupled with flashing images, 3D models, and a lot of made-up techno talk. |
41 | * HollywoodHealing: No matter how serious the wound, the character will heal quickly and without permanent damage. |
42 | * HollywoodHeartAttack: Heart attacks are portrayed as more dramatic than they are in real life. |
43 | * HollywoodHomely: In-universe, a character is treated as hideous at worst and unattractive at best. To the audience, the character seems perfectly average, if not beautiful. |
44 | * HollywoodHypeMachine: When Hollywood chooses one specific actor to turn into the "Next Big Thing", slapping them on every tabloid and gossip magazine. |
45 | * HollywoodJehovahsWitness: The stereotypical depiction of Jehovah's Witnesses in media, cult-like, invasive, and only having one or two of their beliefs presented. |
46 | * HollywoodKiss: Two characters kiss in the both dramatic, romantic way possible, with some combination of the wind blowing, the sun setting, the rain falling, the birds flying, and [[OrbitalKiss the camera spinning]]. |
47 | * HollywoodLaw: A legal situation with no resemblance to how it would be handled in the real world. |
48 | * HollywoodMagnetism: Magnets can work at any distance, with only the object being pulled to the magnet and not both at once, and can work with any vaguely metallic substance. |
49 | * HollywoodMidLifeCrisis: In RealLife, a mid-life crisis can be a very distressing experience and don't just affect men. In Hollywood, ''only'' men go through mid-life crises, and after a brief period of being adventurous, the problem is solved. |
50 | * HollywoodMirage: Mirages shown as full-out hallucinations of lush green foliage and glittering blue water. |
51 | * HollywoodNatives: "Natives" being scantily clad, dirty, and overall unintelligent savages wildly inferior to the "civilized" group. |
52 | * HollywoodNewEngland: New England is distilled to its stereotypes and portrayed as a coastal town with a big lobster or fish fishery where every one is a Ivy Leaguer. |
53 | * HollywoodNuns: Nuns always wear their habits, and are either very old or very young, very strict or very nurturing. |
54 | * HollywoodOld: An actor of a much younger age portraying an older character. |
55 | * HollywoodPoliceDrivingAcademy: Policemen drive like maniacs on the road so long as they are pursuing a criminal. |
56 | * HollywoodProvincialism: If it takes place in the USA, expect the setting to look like southern California. |
57 | * HollywoodPsych: Psychology, including psychological disorders, is treated with a lot of liberty in Hollywood. Most commonly, anxiety, paranoia, etc. are treated as things that characters can willingly get over. |
58 | * HollywoodPudgy: Being even slightly overweight automatically makes a character fat. |
59 | * HollywoodRestrainingOrder: A restraining order portrayed as forbidding someone from getting too close to the person who issued the restraining order. |
60 | * HollywoodSatanism: Satanism is portrayed as an evil cult, complete with dark robes and lit candles. |
61 | * HollywoodSilencer: Silencers can ''completely'' mute a gunshot and are available to any gun owner. |
62 | * HollywoodSkydiving: You can skydive whenever, wherever, and as long as you open your parachute before you hit the ground, you're good. |
63 | * HollywoodSpelling: Characters know how to spell something correctly even when they shouldn't. |
64 | * HollywoodTactics: Liberties taken with military tactics. |
65 | * HollywoodThin: When the only "attractive" body type is thin and petite, even when someone is worryingly underweight. |
66 | * HollywoodToneDeaf: Bad singers sing with a ridiculously nasally and unnatural voice. |
67 | * HollywoodTorches: Torches can be made from anything, can burn forever, and produce no smoke. |
68 | * HollywoodTourettes: Tourettes Syndrome is stereotyped as the person habitually swearing. |
69 | * HollywoodVoodoo: When it comes to voodoo in Hollywood, it rarely gets any deeper than voodoo dolls and tarot cards. |
70 | * HollywoodWebCam: Video calls do not work that way. |
71 | * ThingsAreMoreEffectiveInHollywood |
72 | [[/index]] |
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