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