Tropescilloscope: Flashback

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

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