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