Tropescilloscope: Extremely Short Timespan

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

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