Tropescilloscope: In Medias Res

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

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