Tropescilloscope: Extremely Short Timespan

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

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