Tropescilloscope: Imagine Spot

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

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