Tropescilloscope: In Medias Res

The series starts in the middle of the story. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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