Tropescilloscope: In Medias Res

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

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