Tropescilloscope: Extremely Short Timespan

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

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