Tropescilloscope: Fantasy Films

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