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