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