Tropescilloscope: Call-Forward

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

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