Tropescilloscope: Call-Forward

Referencing events already shown to the audience but that haven't happened yet chronologically. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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