Tropescilloscope: Fantasy Films

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