Tropescilloscope: Imagine Spot

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

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