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