Tropescilloscope: Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane

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

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It Will Never Catch On Reckless Gun Usage Not So Stoic Naked People Are Funny Alliterative Name Deadpan Snarker British Films I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Made of Explodium Badass in a Nice Suit Big Applesauce Toplessness from the Back Villain with Good Publicity La Résistance Car Fu Beard of Evil Failed a Spot Check Red Right Hand Agony of the Feet Red Shirt No-Sell Artistic License – Geography Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Time Skip Line-of-Sight Name B-Movie Maybe Ever After All for Nothing Hollywood Darkness Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Intrepid Reporter Extremely Short Timespan The Brute A Father to His Men War Is Hell Hollywood Law Russian Films Sci-Fi Horror Peek-a-Boo Corpse Guns Akimbo Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Sinister Minister Closed Circle Only Sane Man Only Known by Their Nickname Unwitting Instigator of Doom Light Is Not Good Parental Substitute Off with His Head! 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Is Serious Business Redemption Equals Death Fanservice For the Evulz Antagonist Title Badass Grandpa Kubrick Stare Combat Pragmatist In Medias Res Spiritual Successor Evil-Detecting Dog Mood Whiplash Ms. Fanservice Stealth Pun Deus ex Machina Hate Sink Deliberately Monochrome Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Would Hurt a Child And Starring Malevolent Masked Men Scenery Porn Advertised Extra Meaningful Background Event Adaptational Villainy No OSHA Compliance Names to Run Away from Really Fast Sacrificial Lion Recycled IN SPACE! 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Is a Crapshoot Kick the Dog Suspiciously Specific Denial Dirty Coward Asshole Victim The Alleged Car Double-Meaning Title Death Seeker Bring My Brown Pants Butt-Monkey Determinator aka: The Determinator Animal Motifs Villain Song Black Best Friend Shell-Shocked Veteran Mad Scientist Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism True Companions You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Cool Old Guy Anguished Declaration of Love What Happened to the Mouse? Adaptation Name Change Artistic License – Physics Bloody Hilarious The Alcoholic Dissonant Serenity Ghost Fiction Shirtless Scene Boom, Headshot! What You Are in the Dark Morality Pet Early Installment Weirdness And the Adventure Continues Badass Boast Reality Ensues Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Fainting Due to the Dead Neck Snap Abusive Parents Gory Discretion Shot Faux Affably Evil Obstructive Bureaucrat Friend to All Children Artistic License – Gun Safety Sir Swears-a-Lot Not So Different Hoist by His Own Petard You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! 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Mythology Gag Captain Ersatz Foreshadowing Fate Worse than Death Groin Attack Danny Peary Cult Movies List Fake Shemp Catapult Nightmare Did Not Get the Girl Riddle for the Ages Continuity Nod The Great Depression Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Anachronism Stew Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Batman Gambit Wretched Hive It Can Think Determinator Call-Forward Cat Scare Awesome, but Impractical Beware the Nice Ones Anachronic Order Manchild Aside Glance I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Spiteful Spit Our Zombies Are Different Aluminum Christmas Trees Taking You with Me Accidental Murder Taking the Bullet Once More, with Clarity! Character Development Hell Is That Noise Defiant to the End Even Evil Has Standards You Killed My Father Author Appeal Blood from the Mouth The Atoner