Tropescilloscope: 20 Minutes into the Future

The near future is just like The Present Day, but with Applied Phlebotinum, and maybe some big social changes. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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