Tropescilloscope: Call-Forward

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

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