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