Tropescilloscope: Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane

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