Tropescilloscope: Flashback

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

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