Tropescilloscope: Flashback

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

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