Tropescilloscope: Flashback

The characters' reminiscence of past events are relayed to the audience through another scene. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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