Tropescilloscope: Early Installment Weirdness

The early episodes of a series are vastly different than the later installments. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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