Tropescilloscope: Extremely Short Timespan

A story that takes place in three days or less. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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