Tropescilloscope: Imagine Spot

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

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