Tropescilloscope: Fantasy Films

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