Tropescilloscope: Call-Back

A reference to an earlier event in a series that's relevant for the plot. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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