Tropescilloscope: Extremely Short Timespan

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

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