Tropescilloscope: Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane

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

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