Tropescilloscope: In Medias Res

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

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