Tropescilloscope: Extremely Short Timespan

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

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