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