Tropescilloscope: In Medias Res

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

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