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