Tropescilloscope: Extremely Short Timespan

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

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