Tropescilloscope: Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane

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

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