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