Tropescilloscope: Time Skip

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

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