Tropescilloscope: Anachronic Order

The order in which the story is told is not the order in which its events took place. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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