Tropescilloscope: Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane

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

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