Tropescilloscope: Extremely Short Timespan

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

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