Tropescilloscope: In Medias Res

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

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