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