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