Tropescilloscope: Imagine Spot

A brief cut to a Fantasy Sequence and back. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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