Tropescilloscope: Time Skip

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

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