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