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