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