Tropescilloscope: Call-Forward

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

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