Tropescilloscope: Flashback

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

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