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1This index is for tropes and categories that follow the Hollywood X naming scheme.
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3Note 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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5See also ArtisticLicense, which many tropes under this index fit various forms of. Compare to AnimeReality.
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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
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