Tropescilloscope: Time Skip

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

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