Tropescilloscope: Extremely Short Timespan

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

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Is a Crapshoot Hooker with a Heart of Gold Getting Crap Past the Radar Adaptation Distillation Retired Badass Calling the Old Man Out Every Car Is a Pinto Fourth Date Marriage Red Shirt World of Ham One-Word Title "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Tranquil Fury Hero of Another Story Broken Bird Scenery Porn From Nobody to Nightmare Aside Glance Training Montage Downer Ending Knife Nut Our Vampires Are Different The Alleged Car Shout-Out Alpha Bitch Serious Business Alas, Poor Villain Index of Film Westerns The Stinger Even Evil Has Standards Motor Mouth Central Theme Italian Films It Will Never Catch On Anti-Hero Naïve Newcomer Wham Line Heroic Sacrifice Double-Meaning Title The Musical Homage Taking the Bullet What You Are in the Dark In Medias Res Christmas Movies Index Danny Peary Cult Movies List Parental Abandonment Bond Villain Stupidity Heterosexual Life-Partners Crazy-Prepared Gone Horribly Right Expository Hairstyle Change What the Hell, Hero? Bittersweet Ending La Résistance Needs Wiki Magic Love Suspiciously Similar Substitute British Films The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Drives Like Crazy Double Entendre Stuff Blowing Up The Hero Dies The Big Guy Animal Title Index What Happened to the Mouse? Took a Level in Badass A Father to His Men Evil vs. Evil Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Death of a Child Storming the Castle Insistent Terminology Ambiguous Disorder Animal Motifs Canadian Movies Stealth Hi/Bye Soft Glass Police Brutality Evil Sounds Deep Bloodier and Gorier Monumental Damage Wicked Cultured Cool Guns Stock Footage Straight Gay Bolivian Army Ending Asshole Victim Camera Abuse Defrosting Ice Queen Insane Troll Logic Fanservice All for Nothing Department of Redundancy Department No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Enemy Mine Ship Tease Lighter and Softer Sadistic Choice Big Eater Failed a Spot Check Eureka Moment Flashback Evil Is Hammy Almost Kiss Older Than They Look O.O.C. Is Serious Business The '80s Age Lift Punny Name Took a Level in Jerkass N-Word Privileges I Need a Freaking Drink All There in the Manual More Dakka Outrun the Fireball Rasputinian Death Retcon Film Series Mistaken for Gay Cat Fight Decoy Protagonist Let's Get Dangerous! Rule of Cool Fan Disservice NO INDOOR VOICE Evil Counterpart Nice Guy Properly Paranoid Meaningful Name Sinister Minister Closed Circle Recycled IN SPACE! Race Lift Mood Whiplash Manipulative Bastard Tap on the Head Super Strength Fantastic Racism I Have Your Wife Instant Death Bullet Brutal Honesty Japanese Films Hypocritical Humor Spared by the Adaptation Anti-Villain Never Found the Body Fun with Acronyms The '70s Sassy Black Woman Paper-Thin Disguise Karmic Death Not So Above It All Plucky Comic Relief Extreme Doormat Face Death with Dignity Not Quite Dead Framing Device Composite Character Historical-Domain Character Bait-and-Switch Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? 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Zombie Stories Final Girl The X of Y Taking You with Me Epic Fail Politically Incorrect Villain Evil Plan Arch-Enemy Slasher Smile Rousing Speech Take a Third Option Man on Fire Reality Is Unrealistic Maybe Ever After You Have Failed Me All There in the Script Rule of Three Coming-of-Age Story Becoming the Mask Death by Adaptation Disney Villain Death Intrepid Reporter Domestic Abuse Country Matters Aluminum Christmas Trees Scary Black Man Karma Houdini No Celebrities Were Harmed Shell-Shocked Veteran Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Men Are the Expendable Gender Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Sole Survivor Spell My Name with an "S" Not So Stoic Anachronism Stew Hypocrite Depraved Bisexual Naked People Are Funny Throwing Your Sword Always Works The Dreaded Lock and Load Montage Protagonist Title The Power of Love War Is Hell Improbable Aiming Skills Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Fatal Flaw Rated M for Manly Playing Gertrude Mugging the Monster Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Loophole Abuse Bad "Bad Acting" Unreliable Narrator Really Gets Around Gold Digger Off with His Head! Truth in Television She's Got Legs Camp Gay Beta Couple Girl-on-Girl Is Hot The Ghost Good Is Not Nice For Want of a Nail Sir Swears-a-Lot Chekhov's Gunman Those Wacky Nazis Children Are Innocent Cool Old Guy Apocalypse How Word of God You Have Outlived Your Usefulness The Stoic Antagonist Title Dark Action Girl Too Dumb to Live Fingore Dull Surprise Badass Longcoat Big Damn Heroes The Reveal Anachronic Order Race Against the Clock Unspoken Plan Guarantee Annoying Younger Sibling Smug Snake Babies Ever After My Greatest Failure Deconstruction Reckless Gun Usage Artistic License – Biology In Name Only Blood Knight Character Development Damsel in Distress Drowning My Sorrows Beauty Is Never Tarnished The Bad Guy Wins Advertised Extra Large Ham Freeze-Frame Bonus Would Hit a Girl Dual Wielding Adult Fear Evil Brit Black Best Friend Big Bad Sanity Slippage Retirony How We Got Here Hidden Depths Not So Different Parental Neglect Brainless Beauty The Atoner It Can Think Dark and Troubled Past Expy Greater-Scope Villain Accidental Murder Get Out! 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Fat Bastard Mythology Gag You Killed My Father Captain Ersatz Determinator Abhorrent Admirer Totally Radical Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Shown Their Work Cassandra Truth Pretty Little Headshots Mr. Exposition Screw This, I'm Outta Here! 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They Really Do Love Each Other It's Personal Faking the Dead A Minor Kidroduction Genre Savvy Break the Cutie Loads and Loads of Characters Superhero BFG Never My Fault Happily Married Freudian Excuse Adapted Out Silence Is Golden Credits Gag Red Oni, Blue Oni Honor Before Reason An Arm and a Leg Put on a Bus Overprotective Dad Creative Closing Credits Bottomless Magazines Bland-Name Product Mama Bear It's All About Me Market-Based Title Fate Worse than Death Kill 'em All Chekhov's Gun Historical Hero Upgrade Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Breaking the Fourth Wall Scare Chord Sexy Discretion Shot Make It Look Like an Accident Unresolved Sexual Tension Worthy Opponent Pragmatic Villainy Dirty Cop Arranged Marriage Vomit Discretion Shot Early-Bird Cameo Hollywood Law The Quiet One Re-Cut Covers Always Lie Hope Spot Unwitting Instigator of Doom Broken Pedestal Manly Tears Fish out of Water Creepy Child Beware the Nice Ones Toplessness from the Back The Dragon Reality Ensues Missing Mom Only a Flesh Wound Gory Discretion Shot Important Haircut Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Bring My Brown Pants Dark Is Not Evil Neck Snap Kick the Dog Leave the Camera Running An Axe to Grind Deus ex Machina Pet the Dog The Great Depression Male Frontal Nudity Wretched Hive "Shaggy Dog" Story Laser-Guided Karma Smoking Is Cool The Smurfette Principle Hollywood Darkness Interrupted Suicide Eye Scream Self-Deprecation Fainting Rape as Drama Cowboy Cop Genre Throwback Light Is Not Good Eyepatch of Power Redemption Equals Death Pyrrhic Victory Laughing Mad Dressing as the Enemy Authority Equals Asskicking Vampire Fiction Bloodless Carnage Your Cheating Heart Token Minority Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Spiritual Successor The Place Hong Kong Films Revenge No Ending Wounded Gazelle Gambit Poor Communication Kills Reality Has No Subtitles Have a Gay Old Time Manic Pixie Dream Girl Fiery Redhead Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Mighty Whitey Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Rich Bitch Kubrick Stare Sequel Hook Genre Shift Continuity Nod Did Not Get the Girl Pragmatic Adaptation Once More, with Clarity! The Casanova Actor Allusion Developing Doomed Characters Heel–Face Turn Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Intergenerational Friendship I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Madness Mantra Historical In-Joke Better to Die than Be Killed The Ditz Dark Reprise Defiant to the End Action Survivor Arc Words Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Big Bad Duumvirate Corpsing Here We Go Again! You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! 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Adaptation Expansion Canon Foreigner Product Placement Stalker with a Crush Pimped-Out Dress Disguised in Drag Batman Gambit Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Time Skip Evil Laugh Gorn Card-Carrying Villain Stepford Smiler The Chick Ms. Fanservice Noodle Incident Corrupt Corporate Executive All Girls Want Bad Boys Gainax Ending Say My Name Not Even Bothering with the Accent Evil Is Petty Cool Car Undying Loyalty Dying Moment of Awesome Broken Aesop Cloudcuckoolander Bound and Gagged Daddy's Girl Tagline Dies Wide Open Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Slasher Movie Room Full of Crazy The Load One-Man Army The Cavalry Real Life Imagine Spot Even Evil Has Loved Ones Offscreen Moment of Awesome And the Adventure Continues Kick the Son of a Bitch After the End Well-Intentioned Extremist Red Herring Unusually Uninteresting Sight Guile Hero Slap-Slap-Kiss Bullying a Dragon Fatal Family Photo Sacrificial Lion Femme Fatale Mexican Standoff timeperiod Humiliation Conga Amoral Attorney Conspicuous CG 20 Minutes into the Future Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! The Faceless Works Set in World War II Posthumous Character Wham Shot Wrong Genre Savvy Very Loosely Based on a True Story Leitmotif Male Gaze Mooks Public Domain Feature Films Exact Words Video Credits Artistic License – Law Call-Forward French Films Eldritch Abomination Artistic License – Gun Safety Those Two Bad Guys Empathic Environment Neck Lift Flipping the Bird Big-Bad Ensemble Actually Pretty Funny Malevolent Masked Men Guns Akimbo Death by Sex Whole Plot Reference Beard of Evil Epic Movie Horror Films Nothing Is Scarier Leaning on the Fourth Wall Parental Substitute Diabolus ex Machina The Lost Lenore The Lancer Fanservice Extra Chewing the Scenery Russian Films Fire-Forged Friends Line-of-Sight Name Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Evil-Detecting Dog Informed Ability Ascended Extra Adaptational Attractiveness The Hero Red Right Hand Suspiciously Specific Denial Gender Flip Documentary Bilingual Bonus Vitriolic Best Buds Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Drugs Are Bad Accidental Misnaming Jerkass Ambiguous Ending Punch-Clock Villain Biopic Bloody Hilarious A God Am I Ghost Fiction Would Hurt a Child Call-Back Improvised Weapon Sci-Fi Horror Dramedy Last-Name Basis The Stoner Drill Sergeant Nasty Catch-Phrase Determinator aka: The Determinator Deal with the Devil Bunny-Ears Lawyer Action Girl Deadpan Snarker Twist Ending Eiffel Tower Effect Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Translation Convention Those Two Guys The Alcoholic Rule of Funny Agony of the Feet I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Crazy Jealous Guy Friend to All Children Be Careful What You Wish For Hate Sink May–December Romance Music Stories Ax-Crazy Brother–Sister Incest Daylight Horror Improbable Weapon User The Mafia Small Name, Big Ego Cool Shades Chekhov's Skill She Cleans Up Nicely The '90s Air-Vent Passageway Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Visual Pun Alliterative Name Married to the Job Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Captain Obvious Villain with Good Publicity Random Events Plot Meet Cute No Antagonist Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun folderlabel Affectionate Parody Big "NO!" Gratuitous English Hair-Trigger Temper Adaptational Badass Deliberate Values Dissonance This Is Gonna Suck Black Comedy Rape The End... Or Is It? Badass in a Nice Suit Martial Arts Movie Fake Shemp Demoted to Extra An Aesop Villain Protagonist Shirtless Scene Adaptational Villainy Famous Last Words Silent Movie Blackmail Together in Death I Did What I Had to Do The Dog Bites Back Riddle for the Ages Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Immune to Bullets Only Known by Their Nickname Spanner in the Works Awesome, but Impractical As You Know Dumb Blonde Darkest Hour Yandere Crapsack World Exactly What It Says on the Tin "Well Done, Son!" Guy Comically Missing the Point Cold-Blooded Torture Darker and Edgier Auto Erotica Action Prologue Everyone Has Standards Artistic License – Physics Idiot Ball Hell Is That Noise Anguished Declaration of Love And I Must Scream Grievous Bottley Harm Disappeared Dad Distracted by the Sexy Vomit Indiscretion Shot He Who Fights Monsters There Is No Kill Like Overkill Killed Mid-Sentence Logo Joke Ripped from the Headlines A Date with Rosie Palms