Tropescilloscope: Extremely Short Timespan

A story that takes place in three days or less. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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