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