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