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