Tropescilloscope: Fantasy Films

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