Sandbox / Enforced Trope

• outside forces (someone else's opposing intention)
  • Executive Meddling: Executives interfere.
    • Executive Veto: Executives forbid an idea.
  • Contractual Obligation Project: Work is created per obligation.
  • Censorship Bureau: Censorship.
  • Product Placement: A company pays to have its products featured in a work.

• outside forces (just logistics)
  • Serendipity Writes the Plot: A real-life technical limitation shapes the story.
    • No Budget
    • Obscured Special Effects
  • Troubled Production

Related indexes of tropes

• Creativity Leash
• Real Life Writes the Plot