Tropescilloscope: Time Skip

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

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