Tropescilloscope: Call-Forward

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

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