Tropescilloscope: Fourth Date Marriage

Deciding to get engaged or married after an extremely short period of courtship. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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