Tropescilloscope: Race Against the Clock

The heroes have do something to stop the countdown, or else the consequences will be catastrophic. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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