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