Tropescilloscope: Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane

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