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