Tropescilloscope: Time Skip

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

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