Tropescilloscope: Time Skip

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

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