Tropescilloscope: Imagine Spot

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

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