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