Tropescilloscope: Time Skip

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

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