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