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