Tropescilloscope: Fantasy Films

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