Tropescilloscope: Call-Forward

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

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