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