Tropescilloscope: Call-Forward

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

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