Tropescilloscope: Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane

Ambiguously supernatural occurrings. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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