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