Tropescilloscope: Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane

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

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