Tropescilloscope: Flashback

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

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