Tropescilloscope: Call-Forward

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

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