Tropescilloscope: Call-Forward

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

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