Tropescilloscope: Anachronism Stew

A work set in a certain time period has elements of other time periods thrown in. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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