Tropescilloscope: Extremely Short Timespan

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

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