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