Tropescilloscope: In Medias Res

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

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