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