Tropescilloscope: Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane

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

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