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)

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