Tropescilloscope: Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane

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

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