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