Tropescilloscope: Time Skip

Time advances to bring forth a new story after the old one ends. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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