Tropescilloscope: Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane

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