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