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