Tropescilloscope: Fantasy Films

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