Tropescilloscope: Fantasy Films

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