Basic Trope: Nearly everything has a magical explanation.
- Straight: In the land of Tropetopia, oceans are made from the tears of angels, fires are tiny spirits who are super angry, and breezes are fairies singing.
- Exaggerated: Everything is caused by magic. Everything. Light is created from the laughter of young children, clouds are fairies coughing, earthquakes are elves dancing too hard, and the Earth orbiting the Sun is Mother Nature spinning like a ballerina.
- Downplayed: Some things are attributed to magic, but most aren’t. Flowers blooming are fairies blowing kisses, and things sparkling is an angel dancing.
- Justified: ???
- Inverted: ???
- Subverted: It looks like a group of fairies singing creates a surge of breezes, but it was just a windy day and didn’t have anything to do with them.
- Double Subverted: Instead, it was a flock of griffins!
- Parodied: A film begins with an array of fairies apparently singing to create breezes, but it’s actually a rock band of them singing loudly to make tornadoes.
- Zig Zagged: It seems like an angel crying makes an ocean, but it isn’t. However, angels make it rain by crying tears of joy. It revealed later on that the angels who did that weren’t really angels. A moment after, a god carrying a cup of water is implied to be the one responsible for rains and oceans.
- Averted: Everything has a scientific explanation and has nothing to do with magic.
- Enforced: The film’s story was originally going to be about taking a famous, lighthearted children’s book and making it Darker and Edgier. However, due to Executive Meddling, they decided a movie like this would be too dark for the target audience and made it Lighter and Softer by using this trope.
- Lampshaded: “Why are fires spirits and not just rapid oxidation and combustion?”
- Invoked: Magical creatures insist on doing this since they prefer having a control on nature.
- Exploited: An evil witch poisons a group of powerful fairies using a potion. They end up creating tornadoes and hurricanes with their singing, nearly destroying Tropetopia.
- Defied: The magical creatures of Tropetopia refuse to intervene in natural matters and let it do the work itself.
- Discussed: “It could be an angel making those ocean waves…”
- Conversed: “Why is it always the magical creatures responsible for nature and stuff?”
- Deconstructed: Humans find out the creatures are responsible for natural phenomena, and thus, dangerous things like earthquakes and volcanic eruptions that kill many people. Most of the creatures are hunted down to be killed.
- Reconstructed: Humans gain an appreciation towards the creatures, and they have a beneficial relationship where the magical creatures make their lives more pleasant and less chaotic, while the magical creatures are allowed to roam free and are cared too.
