Tropescilloscope: In Medias Res

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

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