Tropescilloscope: Call-Forward

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

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