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