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