Tropescilloscope: Time Skip

Time advances to bring forth a new story after the old one ends. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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