Tropescilloscope: Foreshadowing

Vaguely hinting at upcoming events. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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