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