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