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