Tropescilloscope: Fantasy Films

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