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