Tropescilloscope: Offscreen Teleportation

He can get anywhere if he's off-camera for even a split-second. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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