Tropescilloscope: Fantasy Films

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More Tropes Spanner in the Works Love Triangle Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Too Dumb to Live Video Credits Brother–Sister Incest Intergenerational Friendship All There in the Script Death Glare The Great Depression Chewing the Scenery Would Hit a Girl Getting Crap Past the Radar Historical-Domain Character Adaptational Attractiveness Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Smug Snake Coming-of-Age Story Dark Is Not Evil Chiaroscuro Bloodless Carnage Woman Scorned Only One Name Our Zombies Are Different Action Girl Loads and Loads of Characters Even Evil Has Loved Ones Combat Pragmatist Facial Horror Boom, Headshot! Tempting Fate Catapult Nightmare Eagleland Brick Joke Monumental Damage Psychological Thriller Comically Missing the Point Leave the Camera Running Grey and Gray Morality Diabolus ex Machina Take That! Only Sane Man Advertised Extra No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Big Bad Establishing Character Moment Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Groin Attack Good Is Not Nice Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Rousing Speech Villain Ball As Long as It Sounds Foreign The End... Or Is It? Random Events Plot Crazy Jealous Guy My Greatest Failure Defrosting Ice Queen Composite Character Tagline Morality Pet Parental Neglect Roger Ebert: Great Movies List You Killed My Father Freudian Excuse Call-Back Abhorrent Admirer No Antagonist Unresolved Sexual Tension Mythology Gag Big Bad Duumvirate Adapted Out Daylight Horror Together in Death Auto Erotica The Oner Slasher Movie Villain with Good Publicity Rewatch Bonus Bare Your Midriff From Bad to Worse Batman Gambit Scare Chord Jitter Cam MacGuffin Foreshadowing Four-Temperament Ensemble Hollywood Darkness Once More, with Clarity! Malevolent Masked Men This Is Gonna Suck A Minor Kidroduction Translation Convention The X of Y Even Evil Has Standards Extremely Short Timespan Adaptational Villainy Naïve Newcomer Unusual Euphemism The Lost Lenore I'm a Humanitarian Retcon Large Ham "Well Done, Son!" Guy Karma Houdini Japanese Films Let's Get Dangerous! Closed Circle No Ending Break the Cutie Science Fiction Films The Film of the Book Hollywood Law Revenge Eyepatch of Power Awesome, but Impractical Mercy Kill Foil No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Villain Opening Scene Broken Pedestal Hair-Trigger Temper Evil Laugh And I Must Scream Due to the Dead Scenery Porn Heterosexual Life-Partners Whole Plot Reference Cool Guns Adaptation Distillation Artistic License – Law "Awesome McCool" Name Room Full of Crazy Cowboy Cop As the Good Book Says... Award-Bait Song How We Got Here In Medias Res Demoted to Extra Framing Device Break the Haughty Shut Up, Hannibal! Genre Shift Heroic Sacrifice Shout-Out Big-Bad Ensemble All Girls Want Bad Boys Psycho for Hire Bilingual Bonus The Voiceless No OSHA Compliance Small Name, Big Ego Dramedy Jerk Jock Brutal Honesty Curb-Stomp Battle Sexy Discretion Shot Deus ex Machina Toplessness from the Back The Power of Love Better to Die than Be Killed No-Sell The Chessmaster Bavarian Fire Drill Ambiguous Ending Screw the Money, I Have Rules! NO INDOOR VOICE Bolivian Army Ending Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Rule of Cool Hidden Depths From Nobody to Nightmare Bi the Way Peek-a-Boo Corpse Does Not Like Shoes It Will Never Catch On Only Known by Their Nickname Zombie Stories Pimped-Out Dress French Films Your Cheating Heart Becoming the Mask Kick the Dog Children Are Innocent Chase Scene Reasonable Authority Figure Bottomless Magazines Fanservice Extra Refuge in Audacity Roaring Rampage of Revenge Evil Brit Beauty Is Never Tarnished 20 Minutes into the Future Slashed Throat Jerkass Has a Point Dramatic Irony Line-of-Sight Name Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Shown Their Work Slap-Slap-Kiss Bait-and-Switch Kids Are Cruel The Smart Guy Word of God Arc Words The Starscream Every Car Is a Pinto Blood from the Mouth Determinator It's Personal Jerkass More Dakka Credits Gag Faking the Dead Shipper on Deck Tranquil Fury Berserk Button Final Girl Dying Moment of Awesome Mighty Whitey The Lancer No Name Given He Who Fights Monsters Country Matters Only in It for the Money Loophole Abuse "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Papa Wolf Driven to Suicide Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Ominous Latin Chanting As Himself The '60s Yandere Deadpan Snarker Big Damn Heroes Green-Eyed Monster Silence Is Golden Disney Villain Death Romantic False Lead Action Survivor Straight Gay Sequel Hook Offscreen Moment of Awesome Heel–Face Turn Pyrrhic Victory Dutch Angle Beta Couple Pet the Dog Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Biopic Attempted Rape Flipping the Bird Laughing Mad Anti-Villain Friend to All Children Maybe Ever After Abusive Parents Gender Flip Karmic Death Hooker with a Heart of Gold Car Fu Continuity Nod Contrived Coincidence Have a Gay Old Time Cool Old Guy Wham Shot Documentary Setting Update Fingore Not So Above It All Adaptational Badass Russian Films Kill 'em All Corrupt Corporate Executive Nice Hat Deal with the Devil Guns Akimbo Adaptation Dye-Job timeperiod Superhero Five-Man Band Depraved Bisexual Air-Vent Passageway One-Man Army Artistic License – Gun Safety Index of Film Westerns Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Bad Boss Star-Crossed Lovers Fantastic Racism Evil vs. Evil Mind Screw Idiot Ball Reality Has No Subtitles Vomit Discretion Shot The Chick Be Careful What You Wish For Big "NO!" Pre-Mortem One-Liner A.I. Is a Crapshoot The '90s Needs Wiki Magic Love Sadistic Choice Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Rated M for Manly Here We Go Again! Love at First Sight Action Genre Taking You with Me Soundtrack Dissonance Sinister Minister The Dreaded Names to Run Away from Really Fast Flashback Bond One-Liner Same Language Dub Red Herring Central Theme Crazy-Prepared Noodle Incident Captain Obvious Developing Doomed Characters Heroes Want Redheads Rasputinian Death Irony Broken Bird Dark and Troubled Past Deconstruction Exactly What It Says on the Tin Took a Level in Badass Sacrificial Lion Training Montage The '80s Naked People Are Funny The Remake Drives Like Crazy Film Noir I Need a Freaking Drink Race Against the Clock Brainless Beauty The Reveal Kill It with Fire Those Two Bad Guys Christmas Movies Index Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Author Appeal Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Call-Forward Put on a Bus Fun with Acronyms Psychopathic Manchild Thriller Took a Level in Jerkass Big Fancy House Gold Digger Hypocrite Canon Foreigner Mood Whiplash Fatal Family Photo Fan Disservice Martial Arts Movie Gainax Ending Cloudcuckoolander Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Stealth Pun Victoria's Secret Compartment One-Word Title Suspiciously Specific Denial Almost Kiss Villain Protagonist Running Gag Femme Fatale Manchild Manly Tears Silent Movie Posthumous Character Re-Cut Anguished Declaration of Love Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds For the Evulz Knight Templar Ghost Fiction The Quiet One Drill Sergeant Nasty Fiery Redhead Kubrick Stare Dull Surprise Missing Mom Disappeared Dad Scary Black Man Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Belligerent Sexual Tension Epic Movie Famous Last Words Chekhov's Skill Works Set in World War II Married to the Job Cold-Blooded Torture Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Gratuitous English It Can Think Pragmatic Adaptation Market-Based Title Vacation Films Unspoken Plan Guarantee Animal Title Index Hell Is That Noise Improbable Weapon User The Load Informed Ability Totally Radical Corpsing Stalker with a Crush Foregone Conclusion Happily Married Match Cut Damsel in Distress All for Nothing No Celebrities Were Harmed You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Sealed Evil in a Can Well-Intentioned Extremist Bullying a Dragon Left the Background Music On Pretty in Mink Super Strength An Aesop Humiliation Conga Horror Films Visual Pun Reality Ensues Our Vampires Are Different Truth in Television Faux Affably Evil Punch-Clock Villain Reckless Gun Usage Trailers Always Spoil Bad "Bad Acting" Eye Scream Easily Forgiven Killed Mid-Sentence Italian Films Artistic License – Geography Aside Glance Cassandra Truth The Alcoholic Downer Ending Death Seeker Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Rule of Funny Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Cat Fight Sir Swears-a-Lot Disney Death Stepford Smiler Leitmotif BFG Unreliable Narrator Amoral Attorney Serial Killer I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Deliberate Values Dissonance Parental Substitute Knife Nut German Films Camera Abuse Empathic Environment Not So Stoic Sole Survivor The Ghost Did Not Get the Girl Screw This, I'm Outta Here! All Men Are Perverts Animated Credits Opening My Beloved Smother Hong Kong Films Ax-Crazy Motor Mouth Wham Line Mad Scientist Obstructive Bureaucrat Sassy Black Woman Sci-Fi Horror You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Rich Bitch Early Installment Weirdness Accidental Misnaming Ungrateful Bastard Historical In-Joke "The Reason You Suck" Speech Mr. Fanservice The Sociopath Badass Bookworm The Vamp Chekhov's Gun La Résistance All Just a Dream Serious Business Artistic License – Physics Action Prologue The '70s Insane Troll Logic Failed a Spot Check Not Even Bothering with the Accent Frame-Up Catch-Phrase Instant Death Bullet Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Fire-Forged Friends Meet Cute Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Genre Savvy Insult Backfire Dropped a Bridge on Him Bond Villain Stupidity Exact Words Curse Cut Short Extreme Doormat Narrator Disproportionate Retribution Danny Peary Cult Movies List Funny Foreigner Age Lift Neck Lift Anachronism Stew Oh, Crap! The Ace Eureka Moment Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Military and Warfare Films Black Comedy Rape Stock Footage Badass Grandpa Wrong Genre Savvy Evil Is Petty True Companions The Alleged Car Adorkable Does This Remind You of Anything? Improvised Weapon Lampshade Hanging Early-Bird Cameo Insistent Terminology Meaningful Name Epic Fail Hero of Another Story Cain and Abel As You Know Ripped from the Headlines Red Right Hand Adaptational Heroism Show Within a Show Affably Evil Redshirt Army The Un-Reveal Armor-Piercing Question A Father to His Men Hypocritical Humor Non-Indicative Name Demonic Possession The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Spiritual Successor Undying Loyalty Evil Sounds Deep Shirtless Scene Vampire Fiction Expository Hairstyle Change Captain Ersatz Evil Is Hammy Badass Normal Pragmatic Villainy Bland-Name Product Dressing as the Enemy Genre Throwback Those Wacky Nazis The Bully Neck Snap Shoot the Shaggy Dog Darker and Edgier Bury Your Gays In Name Only Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Riddle for the Ages Calling the Old Man Out A God Am I Evil Plan May–December Romance Everyone Has Standards Police Brutality The Stoic Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Meaningful Background Event Would Hurt a Child Casting Gag Pretty Little Headshots Big Applesauce Soft Glass Eiffel Tower Effect Gone Horribly Right Not What It Looks Like Grievous Bottley Harm Dwindling Party Dumb Blonde Decoy Protagonist The Hero Say My Name Alas, Poor Villain Black and Gray Morality Adaptation Expansion Amusing Injuries Older Than They Look Properly Paranoid Intrepid Reporter Humans Are Bastards Despair Event Horizon My God, What Have I Done? Very Loosely Based on a True Story Novelization Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Rule of Symbolism I Did What I Had to Do Daddy's Girl Covers Always Lie Bar Brawl Body Horror The Atoner Face Death with Dignity Light Is Not Good Rape as Drama Cat Scare Guile Hero Department of Redundancy Department The Stoner Honor Before Reason I Have Your Wife Police are Useless The Faceless Canadian Movies Sequel Escalation Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Horror Comedy Crapsack World Spell My Name with an "S" Conspicuous CG Book-Ends In the Back Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Alliterative Name Vitriolic Best Buds Title Drop Betty and Veronica Logo Joke Male Gaze Didn't Think This Through Precision F-Strike Real Life Card-Carrying Villain Skewed Priorities Ship Tease The Place The Mole Recycled IN SPACE! There Is No Kill Like Overkill Men Are the Expendable Gender Twist Ending Never My Fault Badass Longcoat Slasher Smile Fish out of Water Drugs Are Bad Interrupted Suicide Stylistic Suck Apocalypse How Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Unwitting Instigator of Doom Pay Evil unto Evil Fat Bastard Hero Antagonist Mystery and Detective Films Not Using the "Z" Word Leaning on the Fourth Wall Music Stories Red Shirt Eldritch Abomination Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Character Development Ironic Echo Artistic License – Biology Villainous Breakdown Badass Boast Off with His Head! Stealth Hi/Bye Major Injury Underreaction Moment Killer Expy Darkest Hour Fourth Date Marriage Paper-Thin Disguise Parental Abandonment Fanservice Improbable Aiming Skills Fate Worse than Death Anachronic Order Antagonist Title Jump Scare Time Skip Suddenly SHOUTING! Bowdlerise Meaningful Echo Dissonant Serenity Parental Incest Fantasy Films The Smurfette Principle Gorn Death by Irony Enemy Mine Really Gets Around Cluster F-Bomb Shell-Shocked Veteran Outrun the Fireball Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Historical Hero Upgrade Creator Cameo Fake Shemp Beware the Nice Ones Homage And Starring British Films Greater-Scope Villain Actor Allusion Jerk with a Heart of Gold He Knows Too Much Chekhov's Gunman Bound and Gagged Cool Car Male Frontal Nudity Sanity Slippage The Musical The '50s Babies Ever After Mama Bear The Ditz Deliberately Monochrome The Brute An Axe to Grind Mexican Standoff She Cleans Up Nicely Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Overly Long Gag Nice Guy What You Are in the Dark Plucky Comic Relief Cruel and Unusual Death Funny Background Event Death of a Child The Stinger Obviously Evil Scenery Gorn Redemption Equals Death Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Dirty Old Man Black Best Friend Suspiciously Similar Substitute Butt-Monkey Wounded Gazelle Gambit After the End Spiteful Spit Dramatic Gun Cock Evil Counterpart Not Quite Dead Manipulative Bastard Film Noir Index Anyone Can Die Bald of Evil Blood Knight Red Oni, Blue Oni Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Authority Equals Asskicking Ambiguously Gay The Big Guy Film Series Celebrity Paradox Never Trust a Trailer Australian Movies The Casanova Gory Discretion Shot Offscreen Teleportation Breaking the Fourth Wall Creative Closing Credits Television Movie Index Kick the Son of a Bitch Red Eyes, Take Warning Wretched Hive Taking the Bullet B-Movie Not So Different Cool Shades Bittersweet Ending Man on Fire Playing Gertrude Hate Sink Defiant to the End Gilligan Cut Important Haircut Take a Third Option Death by Sex Romantic Comedy Overprotective Dad Black Comedy Domestic Abuse Fainting Drowning My Sorrows Earn Your Happy Ending For Want of a Nail Race Lift Henpecked Husband Unusually Uninteresting Sight Self-Deprecation Dual Wielding Ass Shove Last-Name Basis A Date with Rosie Palms Ambiguous Disorder Worthy Opponent Asshole Victim Annoying Younger Sibling Retirony Determinator aka: The Determinator The Dog Bites Back '80s Hair Alpha Bitch Crucified Hero Shot Mugging the Monster Those Two Guys Your Head A-Splode Stuff Blowing Up The Cameo Agony of the Feet Adult Fear Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Cool Old Lady Wicked Cultured Death by Adaptation Protagonist Title Adaptation Name Change Dark Reprise Bloody Hilarious Bring My Brown Pants What the Hell, Hero? The Bad Guy Wins World of Ham Fatal Flaw Heroic BSoD Dies Wide Open An Arm and a Leg Actually Pretty Funny Face–Heel Turn Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Dark Action Girl Product Placement Adults Are Useless The Dragon Beard of Evil Made of Explodium Back from the Dead Blatant Lies Ms. Fanservice folderlabel Anti-Hero Storming the Castle Obfuscating Stupidity Hoist by His Own Petard Public Domain Feature Films Plot Hole Laser-Guided Karma Author Avatar Punny Name Lock and Load Montage Hope Spot N-Word Privileges Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Blackmail Badass in a Nice Suit Villain Song The Cavalry Made of Iron Half the Man He Used to Be Arch-Enemy Smoking Is Cool What Happened to the Mouse? Politically Incorrect Villain Manic Pixie Dream Girl "Shaggy Dog" Story Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Aluminum Christmas Trees And the Adventure Continues Mistaken for Gay Artistic License – History Based on a True Story Evil-Detecting Dog Tap on the Head Lighter and Softer Vomit Indiscretion Shot Mr. Exposition Retired Badass O.O.C. Is Serious Business Animal Motifs Distracted by the Sexy Big Eater Heel Realization Real Life Writes the Plot Camp Gay One Steve Limit Poor Communication Kills Up to Eleven Get Out! Mundane Made Awesome It's All About Me Bunny-Ears Lawyer Destination Defenestration All There in the Manual Off-into-the-Distance Ending Broken Aesop Disguised in Drag Make It Look Like an Accident The Hero Dies Accidental Murder Artistic License – Military Mooks The Mafia War Is Hell Implacable Man She's Got Legs Double-Meaning Title Dirty Coward Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Sports Stories Bloodier and Gorier Costume Porn Immune to Bullets Token Minority Spared by the Adaptation Imagine Spot Affectionate Parody I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Throwing Your Sword Always Works Madness Mantra Reality Is Unrealistic Ascended Extra Rule of Three You Have Failed Me Never Found the Body Creepy Child Woman in White Only a Flesh Wound Nothing Is Scarier Handicapped Badass Shower Scene Big Brother Instinct Dirty Cop Dogged Nice Guy Black Dude Dies First Freeze-Frame Bonus Double Entendre Historical Villain Upgrade Arranged Marriage