Tropescilloscope: Imagine Spot

A brief cut to a Fantasy Sequence and back. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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