Tropescilloscope: In Medias Res

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

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