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