Tropescilloscope: Time Skip

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

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