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)

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