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