Tropescilloscope: Flashback

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

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